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PSYCHCOMA 

(Soul-Sleep) 


BY 


HELEN  RHODES 


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WITH  INTRODUCTION 

BY 

ELIZABETH  TOWNE 


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October,  1908 


SUBJECTS 


Introduction  :  How  to  Use  Psychcoma.  (By 
Elizabeth  Towne.)  Page  7 

Part  I.  Psychcoma  or  Soul-sleep  :  Existence  as 
we  know  it.  Birth  and  death.  Astral,  phys- 
ical, spiritual  life.  Psychic  visions.  Obsession. 
Subliminal  self.  Transmutation  of  instincts,  or 
"  Killing  out. "     Cosmic  consciousness.  Page  13 

Part  II.  Transmutation  :  Sex.  Law  of  vibra- 
tion. Control  of  the  breath  with  liberating 
exercises.  Solar  plexus.  Law  of  concentra- 
tion and  meditation.  Page  43 

Part  III.  Awakening  :  Aspiration.  Subconscious 
mind.  Obsession.  Law  of  suggestion,  concen- 
tration, meditation,  affirmation.  Going  into  the 
silence.     Development  during  sleep.        Page  77 

PAST  IV.  Mastership  :  Cosmic  consciousness. 
Happiness.     Dominion.     Realization.     Healing. 

Page  119 


I  ACKNOWLEDGE  MY  INDEBTEDNESS  TO  ALL 
RELIGIONS.  PHILOSOPHIES.  SCIENCE. 
AND  CO-WORKERS,   AND  IN- 
SCRIBE THIS  BOOK  TO  MY 
BELOVED  FRIEND 

Xoutse  2).  flMtcbell 

The  Tower.  June.  1908. 


PSYCHCOMA. 


INTRODUCTION. 

|HE  author  of  Psychcoma  has 
written  this  book  out  of  the 
fullness  of  a  new  and  re- 
markable experience.  There 
are  new  ideas  in  its  pages, 
new  discoveries  that  will 
short-cut  the  path  of  at- 
tainment for  every  earnest 
student  who  uses  the  information,  in- 
stead of  reading  it  merely.  It  is  the 
desire  to  insure  to  every  reader  the 
fullest  benefit  from  these  teachings, 
that  impels  me  to  write  this  intro- 
duction. 

These  teachings  and  special  exer- 
cises are  not  theoretical.  They  were 
all  first  discovered  and  then  tried  out 
by  Helen  Rhodes,  during  a  period  of 


PSYCHCOMA 

two  years  when — as  she  wrote  me  in 
May,  1908 — she  was  at  times  "con- 
sciously living  outside  the  physical." 
Later  they  were  fully  proved  by  a 
group  of  students  in  New  York,  with 
amazing  results.  In  other  words, 
Mrs.  Rhodes  has  found  what  Dr. 
Maurice  Bucke  calls  the  cosmic  con- 
sciousness. And  in  the  finding  she 
has  made  practical  discoveries  which 
I  believe  to  be  in  advance  of  any 
other  teachings  yet  put  into  print. 

This  belief  every  reader  can  prove 
by  using  the  book  as  herein  directed. 

Mrs.  Rhodes  used  special  hours 
every  day,  and  the  result  was  a  deep 
experience  and  original  discoveries. 
Use  this  book  faithfully,  dear  reader, 
and  yours,  too,  shall  be  a  soul-satis- 
fying experience  and  yet  other  new 
discoveries. 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

First  of  all,  do  not  sit  down  and 
read  the  book  through.  Decide  upon 
a  special  hour  for  development,  to  be 
used  every  day  for  at  least  two 
months.  Then  keep  that  daily  en- 
gagement with  yourself  as  the  most 
important  thing  in  life. 

This  is  not  "impossible"  to  any- 
body. Don't  fool  yourself  with  that 
plea.  Not  a  man  or  woman  but 
could  arrange  to  attend  a  series  of 
lectures,  or  a  school,  at  a  certain 
hour  every  day  for  two  months. 
Every  one  can  arrange  to  attend  to 
his  soul  development  with  the  same 
precision,  if  he  will.  The  results  are 
sure  and  rich. 

Let  the  student  take  one  chapter 
at  a  time,  reading  it  every  day  for 
two  weeks ;  reading  it  slowly,  with  a 
quiet  desire  to  know  the  truth. 


PSYCHCOMA 

After  the  reading  let  him  practice, 
faithfully,  whatever  directions  are 
given  in  that  part  of  the  book. 

Let  him  not  quarrel  with  what  he 
reads;  let  him  assume,  for  the  time 
being,  that  it  is  all  so.  Let  him  ac- 
cept with  a  will  and  aim  to  see  things 
and  feel  them  with  the  author. 

After  the  eight  weeks  of  practice  he 
will  know  better  whether  or  not  there 
is  anything  to  reject.  Did  not  Jesus 
say,  "Do  the  will  (of  the  Father) 
and  ye  shall  know  (of  the  doctrine) 
what  to  believe"? 

And  William  James  says  it  is  at 
the  moment  of  doing  that  the  brain 
receives  a  new  kink  to  correspond. 

I  say  unto  you,  Do  the  will  of  this 
book  and  you  will  be  glad  for  ever- 
more. Elizabeth  Towne. 

Holyoke,  Mass.,  Sept.  9,  1908. 

10 


JULIA  WARD  HOWE'S  VISION 

Boston,  June  29tl ,  1908. 

"One  night  recently  I  experienced  a  sudden 
awakening.  I  had  a  vision  of  a  new  era  which 
is  to  dawn  for  mankind,  in  which  men  and 
women  are  battling  equally,  unitedly,  for  the 
uplifting  and  emancipation  of  the  race  from 
evil. 

"  I  saw  men  and  women  of  every  clime  work- 
ing like  bees  to  unwrap  the  evils  of  society  and 
to  discover  the  whole  web  of  vice  and  misery, 
and  to  apply  the  remedies,  and  also  to  find  the 
influences  that  should  best  counteract  evil  and 
its  attendant  suffering. 

"There  seemed  to  be  a  new,  a  wondrous, 
ever  permeating  light,  the  glory  of  which  I  can- 
not attempt  to  put  in  human  words  —  the  light 
of  a  newborn  hope  and  sympathy  blazing.  The 
source  of  this  light  was  human  endeavor  —  im- 
mortal purpose  of  countless  thousands  of  men 
and  women  who  were  equally  doing  their  part 
in  the  world. 

"  I  saw  the  men  and  the  women  standing  side 
by  side,  shoulder  to  shoulder,  a  common,  lofty, 
and  indomitable  purpose  lighting  every  face 
with  a  glory  not  of  this  earth.  All  were  advanc- 
ing with  one  end  in  view,  one  foe  to  trample, 

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one  everlasting  good  to  gain.  And  then  I  saw 
the  victory.  All  of  evil  was  gone  from  the 
earth.  Misery  was  blotted  out.  Mankind  was 
emancipated  and  ready  to  march  forward  in  a 
new  era  of  human  understanding,  all-encom- 
passing sympathy  and  ever  present  help.  The 
era  of  perfect  love,  of  peace,  passing  under- 
standing." 

JULIA  WARD  HOWE. 


PART  I. 


PSYCHCOMA 

(Or  Soul-Sleep) 


Existence  as  we  know  it.    Birth  and  Death.    Astral, 
Physical,  Spiritual  Life.     Psychic  Visions.    Ob- 
session.   Subliminal  Self.   Transmutation 
of  Instincts,  or  "Killing  Out." 
Cosmic  Consciousness. 


PSYCHCOMA. 


PSYCHCOMA. 

SYCHCOMA  is  the  diagno- 
£*  sis  of  your  own  soul,  your 
self.  Before  you  read  fur- 
ther dwell  upon  this  word 
"Psychcoma."  It  is  the 
keynote  of  existence  as  you 
know  it.  This  word  is  used 
according  to  its  original 
Greek  root  meaning.  "Psyche,  the 
principle  of  life  as  connected  with 
the  body."  Man  is  a  soul,  not  has  a 
soul.  His  manifestation  is  thru  a 
physical  body  for  this  life  experience. 
"Coma"  means  stupor,  lethargy. 
You  who  think  you  are  so  very  much 
alive  know  that  in  your  present  life 
you  are  in  this  coma. 

This    life    is    a   twofold    life,    not 

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PSYCHCOMA 

more.  It  is  spiritual  and  physical 
with  their  subdivisions:  the  physical 
includes  the  mental ;  the  spiritual  in- 
cludes the  astral  and  super-astral; 
all  these  interpenetrate.  The  astral 
plane  and  physical  plane  are  one 
with  two  names,  astral  for  the 
thought  life  and  physical  for  the  ac- 
tion life.  Spiritual  life  is  the  unseen 
life  and  functions  with  an  activity 
normal  to  its  plane  and  unseen  by 
our  physical  eye  just  as  we  are  un- 
seen by  it. 

Man  cannot  be  cut  up  into  phys- 
ical, mental,  astral,  and  spiritual 
man,  but  he  is  all  these  at  one  and  the 
same  time  and  ensheathed  as  a  unit. 
The  spiritual  life  measures  attain- 
ment acquired  thru  two  avenues,  men- 
tal deposit  and  subconscious  agency — 
the   physical   body   being   merely   a 

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vehicle  of  expression,  its  mechanism 
drawn  from  the  earth  elements  of 
earth,  air,  and  water,  belonging  to 
its  kingdom  and  subject  to  its  laws. 
It  has  taken  asons  and  aeons  to  pro- 
duce so  responsive  an  instrument 
and  it  requires  years  of  individual 
adjustment  to  acquire  ordinary  pro- 
ficiency and  precision.  Every  self 
enters  the  earth  life  with  this  jacket 
of  limitation  around  it,  the  wires  for 
automatic  activity  and  muscle  con- 
trol all  unattached  and  unstrung, 
unable  to  articulate  a  word;  the  first 
few  years  of  existence  are  spent  in 
simply  maneuvering  the  apparatus. 
The  mental  part  of  man  is  purely 
a  physical  and  mechanical  medium, 
a  laboratory  of  external  impressions 
of  the  physical  life,  and  has  no  sepa- 
rate plane   or  life  apart  from   the 

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PSYCHCOMA 

physical.  It  is  non-existent  on  any- 
plane  but  this  and  is  the  transmitter 
between  the  physical  and  spiritual 
states,  its  mechanism  so  dependent 
upon  the  physical  that  it  is  incapable 
of  carrying  over  as  hereditary  qual- 
ity even  the  primary  knowledge  of 
speech,  and  closes  its  record  with  the 
life  of  its  one  operator.  Its  mission 
is  to  present  sensitive  plates  upon 
which  the  physical  life  experience 
(the  ideo-motor  content  of  action) 
is  recorded  in  a  metaphysical  lan- 
guage intelligible  to  both  spiritual 
and  physical  states,  which  thru  the 
chemistry  of  the  unseen  passes  over 
into  the  subconscious  as  emotion  and 
will. 

Our  life  here  is  a  soul-sleep  or 
Psychcoma  with  periods  of  partial 
and  complete  coma  known  as  waking 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

and  sleeping.  During  both  of  these 
periods  we  are  wrought  upon  by  the 
agencies  resident  upon  these  planes. 
During  sleep  the  soul  functions  on 
the  subconscious  plane  and  except 
during  fugitive  moments  of  somnam- 
bulism is  in  a  deep  physical  coma 
and  reached  only  thru  the  subcon- 
scious. During  our  waking  period 
we  are  dreaming  out  loud!  We  ask 
how  did  this  come  about?  Herein 
lies  the  secret  of  our  earth  life. 

We  have  all  been  told  of  the  so- 
called  astral  life,  that  at  death  we 
pass  to  the  astral  plane,  that  we 
leave  our  physical  body  here  and  as- 
sume an  astral  body  and  that  there 
we  remain  sifting  out  karma  until 
the  time  for  rebirth  draws  us  to  the 
earth  plane  again ;  that  the  astral 
existence  may,  or  may  not,  be  a  long 

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PSYCHCOMA 

sleep  according  to  the  laws  govern- 
ing our  reincarnation.  Naturally 
we  ask  where  we  are  during  this 
period  of  rest?  Are  we  laid  aside 
on  some  astral  shelf  to  await  re- 
birth? Know,  then,  that  we  are  not 
in  some  far  away  place,  but  here. 
This  is  startling,  but  this  simple  fact 
makes  you  the  liberator  of  yourself. 
Physical  life  is  the  manifested.  As- 
tral life  the  unmanifested.  Both 
here.  Spiritual  life  is  a  distinct 
life  in  a  higher  state  of  conscious- 
ness. 

The  greatest  bogie  of  modern  cults 
is  the  death  symptom.  It  is  a  ghost 
no  prophet  has  been  able  to  disperse, 
as  it  depends  upon  the  law  of  birth. 
Its  protecting  shadows  veil  the  sharp- 
est awakening  the  soul  can  know, 
when,  by  means  of  the  death  mani- 

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festation,  the  physical  body  is  laid 
aside.  To  the  physical  eye  the  phe- 
nomenon is  a  grief,  but  this  death 
door  swings  wide  into  a  world  of 
life,  different  life,  where  the  external 
transmitter  of  physical  experience 
(brain  and  reason)  no  longer  func- 
tion. The  subconscious,  the  sum 
total  of  impressions  and  desires,  now 
has  power.  The  soul  is  now  face  to 
face  with  itself,  and  functions  with 
an  activity  normal  to  its  plane,  un- 
intelligible to  the  physical  eye  as  we 
are  unseen  by  it. 

Into  this  awful  silence  of  the  im- 
manent life,  and  with  all  the  earnest- 
ness that  teachers  and  helpers  exert 
on  this  plane  to  awaken  the  mind 
and  destroy  illusion,  the  workers  on 
the  astral  plane  put  forth  every  ef- 
fort to  awaken  the  sleeper  and  with 

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PSYCHCOMA 

just  as  futile  result.  Hope  and  re- 
incarnation are  altar  fires  that  give 
strength  to  the  helpers  and  sustain 
faith.  This  is  the  battle  ground  of 
desire  and  reality.  This  death  a 
temporary  awakening.  The  memory 
of  this  impotent,  unhinged  self  with 
the  lust  for  sensation  and  momentary 
glimpses  of  life  without  it  weigh 
against  each  other.  Only  within 
himself  can  come  deliverance.  The 
initiation  of  Pythagoras  into  the  mys- 
teries of  ancient  Egypt  symbolizes 
this  new  experience  of  the  soul.  If 
it  has  awakened  sufficiently  to  say, 
"I  know  you  all,  ye  host  of  terrors 
and  brood  of  tempters,"  then  there 
is  no  need  for  such  to  repeat  the  life. 
"That  which  began  in  him  when  he 
began,  is  finished;  he  hath  wrought 
the  purpose  thru  of  what  did  make 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

him  man,  and  he  hath  felt  the 
blessed  last  of  deaths  when  death  is 
dead." 

This  is  the  hell  we  dread,  where 
every  inherent  interest  or  tendency 
is  a  leading  string  and  backward 
pull  toward  the  life  that  was.  The 
hell  of  the  astral  plane  has  burned 
itself  into  the  subconscious  instincts 
of  the  race  since  when  the  first  man 
laid  aside  his  physical  body.  The 
preservation  of  the  self  has  remained 
the  one  deep  impulse  in  every  rebirth 
in  fear  and  challenge  to  the  dissolv- 
ing process.  The  universal  cry  is 
"Do  not  let  me  die."  Death  is  in- 
separable from  life  and  need  be 
feared  only  by  the  sensualist  as  a 
breaking  up  of  his  dream.  The  dif- 
ference between  being  saved  from 
sin  and  hell  or  from  karma  and  re- 

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PSYCHCOMA 

birth  lies  in  a  choice  of  words,  the 
process  is  the  same. 

If  the  dreamy,  sensuous  longings 
and  thirst  for  things  drug  the  soul, 
it  issues  again  upon  the  earth  to  live 
out  the  unpurged  fragment.  Those 
who  hoped  to  see  us  waken  from  the 
earth  experience  watch  us  sink  into 
coma  and  call  it  death.  Life  and 
death  are  the  same  looked  at  from 
different  points  of  view.  Each  de- 
parture is  called  death  on  the  plane 
it  leaves,  and  birth  by  those  who 
watch  its  entrance  on  the  plane  in 
which  it  arrives,  and  emphasizes  the 
fact  that  it  is  not  all  of  death  to  die 
nor  all  of  life  to  live. 

The  sense-struck,  sodden  self  vi- 
brates to  thought  conditions.  Slowly 
the  stupor  grows  until  coma  is 
reached.     Every  breath  potent  with 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

thought  magnetism  to  draw  it  to  its 
kind,  it  becomes  a  matrix  for  mani- 
festation. There  is  but  one  avenue 
for  the  earth  life,  thru  birth;  a  be- 
lief and  indulgence  which  engulfs 
every  other  instinct  and  impulse; 
an  octopus  that  saps  its  victim  while 
it  fattens.  Only  thru  the  avenue  of 
lust  and  love  of  self  can  an  open  way 
be  found  for  the  Psychcoma  to  be 
manifested.  Like  attracts  like,  and 
when  the  conditions  are  fulfilled  to 
make  its  shell  or  physical  body,  it 
enters  upon  the  wheel  of  life  "to 
hug  and  kiss  its  spokes  of  agony." 

During  the  months  of  extending 
its  physical  vehicle  and  wrapped  in 
the  parent  body,  it  is  electrified  with 
its  every  vibration  and  nourished  on 
its  life  principle,  which  makes  its 
manifestation   possible.     In   the  as- 


PSYCHCOMA 

tral  world  there  are  no  physical 
limits  and  to  enter  life  as  a  proto- 
plasm is  as  natural  as  to  develop  a 
seed.  The  law  of  birth  fulfilled,  the 
human  life  phase  begins  again  its 
intermittent  manifestation  of  Psych- 
coma,  alternately  waking  and  sleep- 
ing in  a  world  of  somnambulists 
each  intent  upon  his  little  dream, 
bent  upon  self-gratification  and  in- 
grown upon  itself,  unaware  that  real 
life  is  yet  to  be  lived,  a  life  sur- 
charged with  universal  love.  The 
data  for  self-stimuli  and  develop- 
ment thru  the  centuries  have  fur- 
nished certain  laws  for  protection 
and  restrictions  for  community  good, 
yet  how  feeble  we  are  to  control  this 
wild  and  fanciful  dreamer  our  jails, 
brothels,  court  rooms,  peace  councils, 
and   daily   newspapers   can   tell   us. 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

Each  day  a  revelry  of  dreamers  so 
deep  in  sleep  as  to  commit  theft,  for- 
gery, murder,  and  every  crime  that 
a  thwarted  ego  may  fancy  effective 
in  pursuing  its  fatuous  desires. 
Only  thru  impacts  of  grief  and  the 
interference  available  on  this  plane 
of  consciousness  can  the  Psychcoma 
be  disturbed.  The  victim  of  Psych- 
coma is  under  the  protection,  di- 
rection, and  help  of  two  worlds,  the 
external  with  its  weapons  of  sorrow, 
disappointment,  injustice,  sickness, 
all  products  of  the  inharmony  of  the 
dream  life  with  his  desires  mirrored 
in  the  life  surrounding  him,  and  the 
subconscious  world,  where  unseen 
helpers  companion  him  with  ardent, 
hopeful  application  of  every  known 
means  for  his  awakening.  The  sub- 
conscious or  superconscious  mind  is 

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PSYCHCOMA 

amenable  to  external  suggestion  and 
when  the  soul  wakens  to  understand 
this,  and  uses  the  power  of  self- 
suggestion,  he  becomes  a  master  in 
two  worlds  and  elects  his  own  devel- 
opment. Every  latent  thought  and 
vagrant  wish  must  be  brought  out 
into  the  manifest  to  test  its  worth. 
There  can  be  no  separation  of  me 
and  thee.  The  Psychcoma  is  no  re- 
specter of  persons ;  what  the  vilest  is, 
you  have  been  or  may  be,  the  dream 
life  is  not  to  be  labeled  respectable 
or  otherwise,  it  is  legitimate  and  is 
proving  worthy  to  the  one  who  has 
awakened.  Envy  not  those  whose 
days  are  spent  in  idleness,  the  sheath 
of  self  enveloped  in  the  contentment 
of  satisfied  desires;  theirs  is  a  dark- 
ness into  which  the  divine  light  has 
not  yet  penetrated. 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

True  growth  is  slow.  By  doing 
and  failing  and  doing  again  is  suc- 
cess assured.  In  the  midst  of  a 
large  experience  the  soul  is  quickened 
and  evolution  is  accelerated.  No 
shame  is  attached  to  ineffectual  re- 
sults. The  seat  of  the  strife  lies  in 
the  attempt,  that  alone  asks  for  gen- 
erous consideration.  Draw  no  lines 
between  appearances.  Remember 
that  every  thought  you  may  have 
skillfully  hidden  from  view  is  illus- 
trated in  the  life  of  some  other  one, 
they  the  victim,  you  the  onlooker. 
Give  pity  and  great  love.  Maybe 
through  them  the  light  has  been  re- 
vealed to  you.  And  be  comforted  to 
believe  that  the  Father  of  Lights 
loves  you  as  well  as  He  loves  them, 
no  better;  they  are  but  dreaming  as 
you  have   dreamed,   they   sleep   and 

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PSYCHCOMA 

you  are  awake.  Spiritual  percep- 
tion has  to  do  with  the  beginning  of 
things,  while  human  reason  has  to 
do  with  the  result.  All  life  typifies 
one  life.  The  thief,  liar,  hypocrite, 
are  parts  of  yourself  left  behind. 
Against  that  same  backward  pull 
you  struggle  up  to  new  values.  Re- 
pression, suppression,  or  killing  out 
will  not  determine  your  awakening. 
It  is  wrong  to  negate  our  power 
by  killing  out  anything.  We  may 
transform  and  transmute;  positive 
power  is  creative  and  when  aspira- 
tion potentizes  vibration  it  raises  all 
lower  vibrations  to  itself.  We  ac- 
celerate our  progress  by  appropriat- 
ing higher  values  and  steadily  and 
consciously  transforming  our  desires. 
Self-attainment  depends  upon  our 
mastery  of  every  note  in  the  divine 

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harmony.  Thru  that  scale  vibrates 
immorality,  vice,  sham,  deceit,  greed, 
theft,  lying,  drunkenness,  exclusion, 
pride.  Not  until  all  is  understood 
and  dissolved  is  the  soul  freed  from 
rebirth. 

The  sense-man  resents  the  impu- 
tation of  Psychcoma,  to  him  the 
dream  is  the  thing.  Neither  can 
you  explain  to  the  insane  man  that 
he  is  unbalanced,  so  do  not  expect 
too  much  from  the  dreamer.  If  he 
awake  even  for  brief  spaces  of  time 
he  will  recognize  the  approaching 
coma  as  sensation  and  desire  wrap 
their  psychic  folds  about  him  and 
dim  resolve.  "What  lets?"  "Igno- 
rance lets,  whereby  ye  take  these 
shows  for  true  and  thirst  to  have, 
and,  having,  cling  to  lusts  which 
work  your  woes."     Yet  the  soul  may 

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wrench  itself  free  and  reach  the  sor- 
rowless  state  lost  sight  of  and  neg- 
lected many  myriads  of  cycles. 

In  the  story  of  Parsifal,  Kundry 
alternately  finds  herself  doing  serv- 
ice in  the  Grail  Castle  as  its  good 
angel,  and  in  the  Castle  of  Klingsor 
the  Magician,  as  his  "Rose  of  Hell." 
Always  before  coming  under  the  in- 
fluence of  Klingsor  she  is  aware  of 
a  growing  sense  of  stupor,  and  as 
its  lethargy  steals  upon  her  she  sinks 
deeper  and  deeper  into  sleep.  At 
long  intervals  she  wears  out  the  in- 
fluence and  in  a  feeble  way  regains 
the  path  leading  to  the  Grail  and 
vaguely  remembers  she  has  been 
there  before. 

This  torpor  symbolizes  fugitive 
upheavals  of  unlived-out  fragments 
of  self-absorption  which  sweep  over 

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the  soul  to  engulf  it  or  exert  it  to 
supernormal  action.  Not  until  de- 
sire is  burned  out  or  transformed 
can  the  spirit  be  freed. 

Obsession  is  influence  to  the  point 
of  complete  subjection.  This  sub- 
jection is  not  to  another  unseen 
entity,  but  it  is  the  deep  coma  of 
self-desire  or  any  sense  domination 
of  joy,  fear,  grief.  The  "silver 
cord"  uniting  the  spirit  with  the 
physical  body  is  never  "loosened"  to 
the  point  of  surrender  except  at 
death,  and  this  detachment  means 
death.  Only  thru  physical  form  can 
any  creature  function  on  this  plane 
and  with  the  same  laws  governing 
as  govern  action  on  the  astral  or 
subconscious  plane.  Fear  of  so- 
called  "elementals"  reduces  one  to  the 
level  of  crass  superstition  and  negate 

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effort.  Self  is  the  only  enemy  of 
self,  and  self  the  only  victor.  The 
struggle  is  within. 

The  Psychical  Research  Society 
has  exhausted  every  device  to  open 
the  door  of  the  astral  realm,  but  as 
yet  no  message  has  reached  any  one 
that  has  opened  any  mine  of  knowl- 
edge, revealed  supernormal  secrets, 
or  described  the  activity  on  that 
plane  interpreted  in  any  terms  but 
of  this  life. 

There  are  profound  scientific  stu- 
dents who  believe  all  these  psychic 
phenomena  to  be  subconscious  phe- 
nomena, that  it  is  the  evidence  of 
supernormal  powers  existing  in 
every  human  being  rising  to  and 
manifesting  on  the  plane  of  the  con- 
scious; which  merely  means  that 
the  objective  senses  are  not  function- 

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ing  and  the  subconscious  senses  are. 
It  has  nothing  to  do  with  a  high 
spiritual  life.  Many  depraved  per- 
sons are  able  to  enter  this  so-called 
clairvovant  or  trance  condition. 
Many  see  without  perceiving  and 
many  hear  without  knowing.  To 
see  clairvoyantly  is  not  limited  to 
the  one  who  has  awakened.  It  is  a 
phase  of  the  coma.  If,  during  the 
subconscious  state,  the  soul  was  fully 
awake  and  cognized  its  condition  and 
surroundings,  would  it  not  answer 
the  questions  regarding  the  next  life, 
what  death  meant,  and  would  it  not 
direct  in  moments  of  trial  and  peril, 
telling  us  how  to  act?  What  me- 
dium is  able  to  direct  future  action 
without  the  shadow  of  a  doubt? 

Psychic  visions  are  caverns  where 
lie  buried  wrecks  of  incipient  think- 

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ers  gone  mad  over  thought  systems 
whose  bludgeon  opens  all  the  doors 
of  the  underworld  and  challenges 
the  doorkeepers  of  innumerable 
heavens.  Mysticism  of  the  incanta- 
tion kind  must  yield  to  the  spirit  of 
this  century,  which  flings  high  and 
wide  the  demand  for  the  clearest, 
simplest  laws.  There  is  no  need  of 
glossaries,  special  keys,  spheres  of 
consciousness  and  superstructures 
of  plane  upon  plane  and  a  thousand 
intricacies  that  enmesh  the  student 
in  a  labyrinth  of  mental  whirligigs. 
Our  inheritance  from  the  past  is 
absolute  for  us  only  so  far  as  it 
yields  us  proof  for  every  advance 
step  under  the  X-Ray  of  scientific 
research,  revelation,  and  discrimi- 
nation. Elemental  principles  and 
laws  are  the  possession  of  the  adept 

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who  reduces  them  to  their  last  and 
simple  analysis. 

Clairvoyance  and  psychic  power 
are  not  evidence  of  a  spiritual  life 
but  rather  the  predominance  of  a 
superconscious  activity  which  sees 
and  registers  conditions  of  the  Psych- 
coma  when  the  physical  brain  re- 
mains inert  or  inoperative.  The 
objective  mind  is  then  in  subjection. 
The  aura  holds  as  in  solution  the 
content  of  individual  experience,  the 
arithmetic  of  which  is  the  brain  cal- 
culator. 

If  rebirth  meant  an  easy  and  sure 
release  and  promotion,  the  sensualist 
might  indulge  his  desires.  But  to 
be  involved  in  sense  satisfactions  is 
an  inebriety  that  deadens  aspiration 
and  increases  spiritual  anesthesia. 

If  rebirth  were  unnecessary  and 

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a  mistake  in  the  world  economy,  then 
suicide  were  a  blessing  and  a  privi- 
lege. But  death  does  not  liberate 
the  soul  except  it  liberate  itself. 
Experience  is  life  and  we  do  not  de- 
velop alone.  We  need  the  all  as  the  all 
needs  us.  To  cease  this  experience  at 
any  time  and  at  our  pleasure  means 
to  shirk  and  condemn  the  self  to  a 
coma  controlled  by  the  idea  that  the 
welfare  of  the  personal  self  may  be 
secured  by  grasping  the  goal  and 
escaping  the  machinery  of  develop- 
ment. There  is  only  one  place  for 
the  liberation  of  the  sense  life,  here. 
This  is  the  place  of  bondage.  Real  life 
begins  when  this  bondage  ends.  The 
dream  to  waken  from  is  "I  am  this 
little  body."  Who,  looking  up  into 
the  heavens  at  the  constellations  and 
zones  of  associated  stars,  could  think 

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for  one  moment  that  this  rolling 
planet  was  the  cause  and  purpose  of 
illimitable  space,  and  that  life  began 
and  ended  here  for  no  ultimate  good? 
Every  so-called  law  of  the  universe 
subsisted  in  that  universe  before  it 
existed  for  us.  We  are  not  making 
laws,  they  were  made  from  the  be- 
ginning, and  as  we  recognize  these 
laws  we  may  learn  to  live  in  har- 
mony with  them.  The  opportunity 
of  life  here  is  but  one  section  of  our 
infinite  nature.  You  who  are  awak- 
ened to-day  as  you  read  this  may 
seize  upon  the  sex  instinct  as  the 
only  vicious  element,  perhaps  be- 
cause it  is  so  in  evidence,  or  because 
life  seems  dependent  upon  it,  that 
you  believe  it  the  source  of  all  evil. 
But  cosmic  life  is  hydra-headed;  one 
by  one  the  evils  are  uncovered  as  by- 

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paths  to  the  soul's  citadel.  Attack 
the  evil  that  is  within  your  power; 
lesser  evils  are  the  foothills  that 
lead  to  the  mountain  tops.  You  who 
hold  yourselves  sponsors  for  other 
lives,  accept  your  privilege  as  a 
divine  agent  for  the  evolution  of  a 
soul.  No  one  can  escape  the  earth 
life,  it  is  a  legitimate  part  of  evo- 
lution and  the  only  way  for  the 
Psychcoma  to  be  undermined. 

Would  you  ask  if  the  awakened 
life  becomes  a  dead  level  of  existence, 
if  spontaneity  is  impossible,  if  the 
throb  of  pure  joy  is  checked?  No! 
a  hundred  times,  no!  It  is  an  anti- 
dote for  pain  and  joy  is  heightened. 
No  one  enmeshed  in  the  desire  life 
can  know  what  happiness  is.  To 
the  unawakened  life  is  a  constant 
strife.     Joys  grow  out  of  personal 

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gain,  depending  wholly  upon  the  ca- 
price of  individuals.  Happiness  born 
of  sensation  is  temporary  and  de- 
pendent. Only  when  infatuation, 
lust,  hatred,  is  understood  can  one 
know  happiness.  There  is  a  happi- 
ness, an  abiding  attitude,  which  be- 
longs to  and  is  inherent  in  the 
consciousness;  it  moves  outside  and 
beyond  the  senses  and  becomes  real- 
ization, realization  of  the  oneness 
of  all  creatures,  of  the  oneness  of 
friends  and  enemies,  of  the  oneness 
of  all  worlds,  of  the  oneness  of  the 
eternal  purpose. 

This  awakening  is  accomplished 
thru  the  understanding  and  use  of 
the  law  of  Vibration,  Aspiration, 
Transmutation,  Control  of  the 
Breath,  Concentration,  Meditation, 
Affirmation.    Analyze.    Awake ! 

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PART  II. 


TRANSMUTATION 


Sex.     Law  of  Vibration.     Control  of  the  Breath 

with  Liberating  Exercises.     Law  of 

Meditation  and  Concentration. 


Men  have  professed  the  love  of  God, 
Of  king,  of  church,  of  state,  of  family  ; 
A  loftier  strain  than  all  of  these  I  sing, 
I  love  humanity. 

Divide  not  and  exclude  not, 

Build  no  wall ; 
No  special  tie  shall  bind  me  from  the  whole  ; 
Love's  garment  has  no  rent,  it  clothes  the  all, 
I  love  the  cosmic  soul. ' ' 

— /.  A.  Edgerton. 


PSYCHCOMA. 


TRANSMUTATION. 


OUBERT  has  said,  "There 
A        are   inferior   truths   which 
minister    to    life    and    its 
operation ;         intermediate 
truths   which   exercise   the 
mind   and   afford   it   some 
satisfaction ;    and,     lastly, 
higher    truths    which    en- 
lighten the  soul,  nourish  it  and  con- 
stitute its  happiness." 

It  is  easy  to  say  that  we  seek  the 
truth,  but  to  seek  truth  implies,  first, 
to  apprehend  the  real ;  second,  to  un- 
derstand the  temporal ;  and,  third,  to 
harmonize  the  two,  that  into  the 
temporal  may  be  released  as  much  of 
the  real  as  can  be  absorbed  by  the 
soul  that  is  full  and  full  of  itself. 

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PSYCHCOMA 

Spiritual  development  is  masquerad- 
ing under  many  names  and  not  one 
proclaims  the  need  of  omitting  ma- 
terial and  external  evidence  of  sense 
satisfaction.  The  soul  eagerly  seeks 
sanction  of  its  desires  and  adheres 
with  less  effort  to  the  one  who  grants 
some  measure  of  indulgence. 

Who  is  willing  to  receive  a  truth 
that  lessens  in  any  particular  the 
pleasure  of  physical  sensation?  The 
point  of  discrimination  is  the  separa- 
tion of  sensation  and  reality.  There 
are  those  who  defend  the  testimony 
of  the  senses  as  sacred  altar  fires. 
Do  not  be  deluded,  analyze  all  ex- 
perience, begin  to  think  for  yourself. 
Awake! 

The  love  impulse  is  not  threatened 
with  extinction  thru  analysis,  the 
true  elements  are  preserved  and  only 

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the  spurious  drops  away.  The  ca- 
pacity for  companionship  is  aug- 
mented and  the  elemental  instincts 
of  home  and  family  life  fostered 
thru  elimination  and  preserved  thru 
revaluation. 

Race  suicide  is  not  the  high  water 
mark  of  transcendental  spirituality, 
it  may  be  rather  the  brutality  of  in- 
stinct. We  hark  back  to  an  animal 
ancestry  with  the  solar  plexus  brain 
governing  and  we  signify  the  out- 
grown life  thru  the  germination  of 
spiritual  attributes  resident  in  the 
human.  The  becoming  life  is  the 
glory  with  which  the  awakened  one 
is  en  rapport. 

We  are  not  blind  to  existing  con- 
ditions because  we  attain  spiritual 
sight.  We  are  able  to  differentiate. 
Reason  is  not  in  abeyance;  rather  is 

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its  power  heightened  to  recognize  the 
sphere  of  physical  activity  and  the 
necessity  of  its  functions  and  con- 
sciously granting  its  normal  devel- 
opment thru  the  informing,  educa- 
tive process  of  analysis,  lifting  its 
satisfactions  to  a  high  and  refined 
plane. 

The  gaining  of  wisdom  and  en- 
lightenment does  not  mean  the  neg- 
lect of  any  duty,  the  annihilation  of 
any  expression  of  affection,  indiffer- 
ence of  heart  or  exhaustion.  It 
means  to  be  keenly  alive  to  the 
necessity  of  feeding  the  affections 
with  tenderness  and  appreciation. 
It  makes  of  fatherhood  and  mother- 
hood an  office  equivalent  to  signing 
a  contract  and  pledging  responsibility 
for  the  direction  of  another  soul 
sunk  in  Psychcoma.     The  awakened 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

one  acknowledges  the  mission  of 
pleasure,  knows  the  environment 
necessary  to  psychological  develop- 
ment, and  denies  none  of  these  things 
and  is  able  to  enter  into  them  with 
conscious  enjoyment.  To  be  involved 
is  not  the  fullness  of  enjoyment. 
The  lust  of  self  is  the  loss  of  self, 
the  negation  and  surrender  so  com- 
plete as  to  involve  and  unify  the  en- 
tire creative  impulse.  If  the  desire 
life  predominate  then  the  vibration 
of  the  solar  plexus  brain  controls; 
but  if  transmuted  thru  conscious  di- 
rection it  is  merged  into  another  vi- 
bration, invigorating  and  fertilizing 
any  group  of  cells  we  wish  to  culti- 
vate for  the  expression  of  invention, 
literature,  music,  and  the  fullness  of 
understanding  for  any  work. 

We  may  speculate  as  to  the  end  of 

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life  on  this  planet  should  the  whole 
world  be  persuaded  of  this  truth. 
Mating  would  still  prevail,  the  at- 
traction would  impel  from  like  mo- 
tives and  mental  and  spiritual  likes 
and  sympathy.  Jealousy  and  covet- 
ousness  and  all  their  attendant  evils 
would  never  be  possible,  because 
truth  would  answer  to  truth  and  as- 
pirations coalesce.  Your  hesitancy 
at  taking  the  giant  swing  into  the 
realm  of  reality  will  be  duplicated 
for  ages.  No  one,  save  the  truly 
wise,  is  willing  to  turn  back  even  to 
regain  the  right  road.  The  goal  is 
not  so  easily  reached  that  any  one 
truth  holds  complete  sway  even  for 
one  generation.  World  emancipa- 
tion is  first  individual  emancipation. 
The  Psychcoma  is  insidious,  the 
waking  hour   does   not  nor   cannot 

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dawn  at  the  same  moment  for  all 
dreamers.  Freedom  is  not  to  be 
won  thru  the  "killing  out"  process. 
Freedom  comes  thru  recognizing 
tendencies  that  companion  one  as  a 
shadow  and  will  not  fall  away  except 
they  be  transformed  and  transmuted. 
Mere  resistance  is  of  no  avail  ex- 
cept it  be  educative  and  informing. 
Virtue  when  a  matter  of  expediency 
and  calculation  remains  vice.  Crea- 
tive energy  is  at  the  call  of  the  oper- 
ator and  functions  thru  whatever 
matrix  thought  has  magnetized.  The 
intricate  and  delicate  machinery  of 
the  objective  body  is  little  taken  into 
account.  Power  flows  automatically 
to  centers  which  tap  the  source  thru 
habit.  You  may  unify  this  vital 
force  and  command  it  to  feed  the 
fires  of  the  upper  brain  or  stupefy 

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and  retard  it  by  relapsing  into  the 
languor  of  the  clamoring  animal 
nature.  "Within  yourselves  deliv- 
erance must  be  sought." 

Treat  all  tendencies  as  friends. 
Say  not  to  the  reprehensible  thought 
rising  into  consciousness,  "Get  thee 
behind  me,  Satan,"  but  rather,  "I 
welcome  you,  my  friend,  you  are  my 
guarantee  of  power,  come  with  me 
into  my  laboratory  of  mind  and 
create  great  thoughts."  Then  do 
something,  if  only  to  close  a  window, 
for  any  motor  activity  releases  over- 
plus production  and  at  your  lightest 
bidding  you  may  pour  creative  in- 
stinct dynamic  with  electric  power 
into  any  channel  and  materialize 
your  highest  desires. 

This  process  is  called  Transmuta- 
tion and  may  be  accomplished  thru 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

analysis,  breathing,  aspiration,  medi- 
tation. 

Concentration  and  meditation  will 
not  give  power  so  long  as  ignorance 
remains.  Desire  and  misery  will 
recur  until  one  masters  the  nature  of 
things.  Analysis  is  a  potent  remedy, 
and  may  be  applied  on  every  occasion 
of  physical  allurement  or  distraction. 
One  of  the  surest  ways  of  killing  a 
tree  is  to  lay  bare  its  roots.  When 
the  elements  that  constitute  the 
stream  of  any  individual  existence 
have  their  source  undermined  they 
cease  to  originate,  and  when  we 
cease  to  preserve  we  disinter  the 
origin.  Cease  to  dote  on  dreams. 
Awake!  Face  your  own  soul  and  con- 
quer the  animal  self  which  dwells  in 
sensation  only.  Link  yourself  to  the 
great  Over-Soul  rather  than  to  hu- 

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man  caprice.  The  soul  is  not  one 
thing  and  the  body  another,  neither 
may  one  say,  "I  will  indulge  my 
body,  my  soul  will  not  be  involved." 
Man,  body,  soul,  are  one  in  the  roots 
and  in  fruition.  A  partnership 
which  is  a  unit  on  the  physical  plane, 
dependent  upon  each  other  in  unison 
and  simultaneously  as  factors  which 
constitute  the  elements  of  being,  not 
by  a  part  of  their  number  nor  by  one 
succeeding  the  other. 

Method  in  the  manner  of  attain- 
ment is  a  guarantee  of  success. 
Power  flows  easily  in  grooves  magnet- 
ized thru  repetition.  Only  for  a  few 
times  is  it  necessary  to  whip  the  self 
to  execute  the  rules  determined  upon ; 
soon  action  and  reaction  become 
partners  and  the  consciousness  be- 
comes duplex  in  receiving  and  over- 

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coming  at  the  same  time.  No  teacher 
has  furnished  so  detailed  a  method 
for  lifting  the  self  into  higher  states 
of  consciousness  as  the  Buddha,  and 
Warren  in  his  "Buddhism  in  Trans- 
lations" gives  this  potent  method: 
"At  the  moment  of  need  at  once  viz- 
ualize  the  body  and  analyze  it  ac- 
cording to  the  elements  of  which  it 
is  composed;  thus  it  ceases  to  be 
thought  of  as  a  living  entity  or  in- 
dividual but  only  as  so  many  ele- 
ments. Thru  analysis  a  mental 
reflex  is  acquired  that  is  invincible. 
Thus  are  vigor  and  high  pressure  con- 
served. Separate  desire  from  the 
animal  body  concealed  by  adventi- 
tious ornament,  and  recognize  the 
essential  repulsiveness  of  the  body 
and  thus  acquire  the  mental  reflex, 
and  know  that  there  is  not  the  small- 

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est  reason  for  being  pleased.  Ac- 
curate comprehension  of  what  a  man 
is  and  what  he  does  prefigures  en- 
lightenment. 

"To  analyze  the  body:  Consider 
this  body  upwards  from  the  soles  of 
the  feet  and  downwards  from  the 
crown  of  the  head,  inclosed  by  skin 
and  full  of  all  manner  of  unclean- 
ness,  saying,  there  is  in  this  body, 
hair  of  the  head,  hair  of  the  body, 
nails,  teeth,  flesh,  bone,  marrow  of 
the  bone,  kidneys,  heart,  lungs,  in- 
testines, bile,  pus,  blood,  sweat, 
saliva,  urine.  Contemplate  upon 
this  and  repeat  it  over  and  over." 
Analysis  of  the  body  may  be  supple- 
mented by  contemplating  the  Bud- 
dhic  law  of  physical  existence  or  de- 
pendent origination,  thus: — 
"On  ignorance  depends  karma; 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

On  karma  depends  consciousness; 
On  consciousness  depend  name  and 

form; 
On  name  and  form  depend  the  six 

organs  of  sense; 
On  the  six  organs  of  sense  depends 

contact; 
On  contact  depends  sensation; 
On  sensation  depends  desire; 
On  desire  depends  attachment; 
On  attachment  depends  existence; 
On  existence  depends  birth; 
On  birth  depend  old  age  and  death, 
sorrow,     lamentation,     misery, 
grief,  and  despair. 
"On  the  cessation  of  birth  cease  all 
these   evils.     Thus   does    the   entire 
aggregation  of  misery  cease.     Thus 
may   one   readjust   equilibrium    and 
power,    gaining    in    the   practice   of 
observing  the  body,  strenuous,  con- 

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scious  of  sensation  and  the  elements 
of  being,  of  the  nature  of  form,  the 
bondage  that  arises  thru  dependence 
upon  it,  how  bondage  not  yet  arisen 
may  arise,  how  to  be  abandoned  and 
how  it  may  be  kept  from  arising." 

As  analysis  is  one  method  of  de- 
liverance, so  also  is  the  control  of  the 
breath  and  the  law  of  vibration. 

The  law  of  vibration  in  the  phys- 
ical world  requires  no  effort  of  the 
imagination.  Light  is  a  rate  of  vi- 
bration which  at  a  certain  speed 
imparts  color;  so  is  sound  and  heat 
a  rate  of  vibration.  The  primitive 
savage  lighted  his  fire  by  the  vibra- 
tion or  friction  produced  by  rubbing 
two  flints  together.  Motion  is  a 
rate  of  vibration.  Every  emotion 
pulses  a  rate  of  vibration,  the  pulse 
is  the  indicator.     A  thought  forces 

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vibration  according  to  emotional  re- 
action, the  physical  machinery  re- 
cording its  vibration.  If  it  can  be 
changed  by  others  it  can  be  ordered 
by  ourselves.  We  are  the  governor 
of  the  dynamo. 

Vibration  is  the  unifying  element 
of  thought.  Like  attracts  like.  Thru 
unrelated  but  affiliated  thought 
waves  a  vibration  is  produced  which 
swallows  up  elements  foreign  to  it. 
This  operates  for  bad  as  well  as  for 
good.  When  a  person  senses  the 
lower  nature  governing  he  can  re- 
adjust himself  quicker  thru  the 
breath  than  thru  the  management  of 
the  mental  machinery.  Thus  are  all 
mental  and  physical  processes  re- 
actionary. 

The  mere  physical  automatic  proc- 
ess of  breathing  is  a  blind  force.     It 

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is  not  mere  use  that  develops  but  the 
amount  of  nourishment  in  thought 
and  breath  that  is  circulated.  Breath 
is  the  energizing  force  in  nature  and 
the  vital  force  in  the  human  organ- 
ism, consequently  the  most  potent 
agency  for  the  invigoration  of  the 
body.  It  is  the  resident  power  in 
physical  life,  inbreathed  in  the  raw 
state,  where  it  becomes  impregnated 
and  surcharged  thru  the  fusion  of 
essential  elements,  physical  and  men- 
tal, and  becomes  the  magnetic  fluid 
by  which  circulation  is  sustained. 
Congestion  and  inflammation  is  ob- 
struction of  the  breath.  This  means 
cell  decay  and  death.  The  demand 
is  for  more  breath.  Any  diseased 
part  demands  the  conscious  spraying 
of  that  part  with  a  thought  which  in- 
flates the  cells  of  that  center  to  re- 

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sponse.  Thought  is  the  lightning 
message  carried  by  the  unseen  mes- 
senger vibration,  according  as  the 
switchboard  of  the  brain  indicates 
the  connection. 
The  Inward  Breath  Used  by  Adepts. 

The  spraying  of  the  body  inwardly 
is  a  developing  process  known  to 
adepts  for  purposes  of  invigoration, 
recuperation,  and  healing.  It  con- 
serves every  atom  of  energy  and  is  a 
vastly  different  thing  from  merely 
inhaling  thru  the  nostrils  and  ex- 
haling thru  the  mouth,  thus  pouring 
outside  of  the  body  all  the  vibratory 
essence  of  psychic  equation,  which 
has  by  virtue  of  the  intake  become 
charged  with  power. 

When  we  take  breath,  every  atom 
of  our  being  gives  consent  to  the  re- 
ceiving   process.     We    are    apt    to 

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think  that  the  burden  of  breathing 
is  left  wholly  to  the  orifice  in  the 
face;  but  every  cell  inhales.  When 
the  breath  is  charged  with  a  specific 
thought,  every  atom  is  subject  to  it. 
Inhaling  and  exhaling  are  the  nega- 
tive and  positive  poles  of  one  process, 
and  you  may  connect  all  the  belts  of 
the  revolving  mental  and  physical 
machinery  and  become  a  dynamo  in- 
vincible. 

The  method  of  the  inward  breath: 
Inhale  as  from  a  circle  with  yourself 
as  the  center  and  the  solar  plexus 
as  the  focus.  Hold  the  breath  a  mo- 
ment then  slowly  exhale  upward 
spraying  or  spreading  the  breath 
within  and  over  the  entire  body, 
visualizing  the  process  as  similar  to 
the  piece  of  fireworks  known  as  a 
"shower."     To  heal  any  organ  or  to 

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acquire  an  increase  of  power,  direct 
the  spraying  to  that  organ,  accom- 
panied with  certain  affirmations.  To 
inhale  the  organs  are  inflated;  in  ex- 
haling they  contract.  Beware  of 
drawing  in  the  abdomen  except  as 
you  exhaust  the  breath,  as  this  shuts 
off  breath  supply.  The  muscular 
movement  of  extending  and  contract- 
ing the  abdomen  will  of  itself  supply 
breath  without  consciously  inhaling 
or  exhaling.  The  singer  is  able  to 
sustain  long  phrasing  only  thru  the 
abdominal  capacity,  and  it  is  the  last 
source  to  be  exhausted  and  holds  its 
supply  normally  as  does  a  rubber 
ball. 

Method:  Inhale  slowly  thru  the 
nose,  inflating  lungs,  sides,  abdomen 
in  turn,  following  the  inbreathing 
with  a  mental  picture  of  its  progres- 

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sion,  focussing  and  holding  the  breath 
a  moment  at  the  solar  plexus  or 
abdominal  brain,  which  is  at  the  up- 
per part  of  the  abdomen,  just  back 
of  the  stomach.  Then  exhale  slowly 
upward  along  the  spine  and  spray,  in 
thought,  the  entire  brain  area.  Do 
this  at  least  ten  times.  This  vibra- 
tion centered  at  the  solar  plexus  is  so 
powerful  that  it  will  restore  equi- 
librium at  any  time.  For  harmoniz- 
ing the  entire  body,  direct  and  spray 
the  body  and  the  feet  thru  the  mental 
visualizing,  not  confining  it  to  the 
brain,  but  continuing  it  as  in  a 
circle. 

To  induce  sleep  visualize  the 
breath,  descending  the  spine,  and 
carry  it  downward  into  and  out  of 
the  feet.  No  one  who  practices  this 
exercise  need  suffer  from  cold  feet. 

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By  holding  the  breath  at  the  solar 
plexus  the  same  length  as  the  inhala- 
tion, chills  may  be  averted  and  per- 
spiration induced. 

This  general  exercise  may  be  used 
at  all  times  by  the  speaker,  writer, 
worker,  or  idler  and  will  change  the 
vibration  of  the  entire  body  in  the 
quickest  time.  Congestion,  paraly- 
sis, constipation,  and  swellings  all 
yield  to  this  process,  as  the  mass  is 
broken  up  by  circulation  and  the 
dead  or  inert  atoms  cease  to  adhere. 
In  fever  the  need  is  to  expel  the 
breath  from  and  outside  the  body. 
Increase  of  power  is  more  rapidly 
gained  if  the  exhaled  breath  is  con- 
trolled and  released  slowly. 

The  distributing  station  should  al- 
ways be  the  solar  plexus,  as  this  is 
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PSYCHCOMA 

of  physical  creative  force.  Not  until 
the  upper  brain  controls  the  solar 
plexus  brain  can  sensation  ripen  into 
understanding.  How  to  generate 
this  power,  to  transmute  the  sepa- 
rate, irresolute,  and  erratic  currents 
of  thought  into  direct  and  trenchant 
force  is  the  path  out  of  Psychcoma 
into  Mastership. 

All  exercises  are  absolutely  of  no 
value  unless  they  are  a  conduit  for 
breath,  inhaling  as  you  begin  each 
movement,  and  exhaling  as  the  move- 
ment draws  toward  the  close,  mak- 
ing the  moment  of  the  held  breath 
at  the  solar  plexus  the  center  of  the 
exercise.  The  inhaling  and  exhaling 
are  the  going  and  returning  of  the 
life  current,  and  describe  the  circum- 
ference of  the  power  circle,  the  in- 
haling, or  taking  in,  to  the  limit  of 

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power,  then  holding,  which  is  con- 
serving, then  letting  go  in  exhaling. 
This  "letting  go"  thru  the  positive 
directed  thought  is  the  beginning  of 
whatever  manifestation  you  desire. 
This  is  the  method  for  changing 
every  condition.  Each  exercise 
should  close  with  a  relaxing  move- 
ment. Normally  this  very  act  of  ex- 
haling is  relaxation.  No  teaching 
is  recognized  to-day  in  any  field  of 
study  which  does  not  regard  this  law 
of  creative  energy. 

All  exercises  are  unprofitable  un- 
less they  carry  a  thought  in  solution, 
refreshing  the  nerves  as  well  as  the 
muscles.  To  go  thru  a  form  without 
incorporating  it  into  the  understand- 
ing and  circulation  is  a  waste  of  time. 
An  idea  (thought)  is  completed  thru 
its  angle  of  action  (motor)  ;  just  how 

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it  is  deflected  in  the  brain  mechan- 
ism is  the  chemistry  of  the  unseen, 
but  thought  always  has  muscle 
(motor)  response.  To  withhold  ac- 
tion sometimes  requires  more  muscle 
control  than  action.  Extremes  of 
joy  and  sorrow  weigh  down  the 
muscles  beyond  the  normal.  Ideo- 
motor  methods  in  psychology  mean 
that  an  idea  or  thought  has  specific 
gravity,  which  is  the  scientific  psy- 
chological way  of  saying  "Thoughts 
are  things." 

If,  then,  our  thoughts  have  specific 
gravity,  and  if  weighted  with  pain  or 
grief,  the  delicate  nerve  wires  are 
easily  exhausted  under  the  burden 
of  the  ideo-motor  message;  but  if 
winged  with  joy  and  encouragement 
there  is  an  increase  of  power. 

By    carrying    a    thought    on    the 

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breath  the  whole  organism  is  stirred 
and  magnetized  to  a  high  degree. 
The  personal  currents  open  and  ex- 
pand, inviting  supply.  There  is  lack 
of  nothing  in  the  universal  energy; 
the  lack  is  in  ourselves  contracting 
our  own  avenues  and  shutting  out 
supply  or  canceling  the  creative 
power  thru  neglect  to  visualize  the 
thought,  fixing  it  in  the  mind  and 
breathing  upon  it  as  a  matrix  for 
manifestation. 

A  daily  exercise  should  compre- 
hend a  complete  series  and  involve 
upper  and  lower  parts  of  the  body, 
arms,  legs,  head,  closing  with  a  body 
movement,  for  here  is  involved  the 
great  principle  of  releasing  the  ten- 
sion of  the  body  and  mind. 

Each  exercise  forces  increased 
vibration  in  the  center  under  manip- 

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ulation,  and  it  is  a  mistake  and  may- 
be a  positive  injury  to  leave  the 
energy  of  the  physical  dynamo 
turned  upon  any  center  and  left 
there.  The  idea  is  to  harmonize  the 
entire  body,  hence  the  series  should 
begin  and  close  with  a  general  treat- 
ment for  the  entire  body. 

Few  people  understand  that  the 
muscles  should  be  held  tense  or  con- 
tracted while  exercising  only  when 
one  is  unable  to  take  sufficient  exer- 
cise and  to  reduce  flesh.  To  obtain 
power  and  poise  without  sacrificing 
what  is  already  possessed,  practice 
these  exercises  on  relaxed  muscles. 
This  is  the  positive,  constructive, 
building-up  process.  The  tense  mus- 
cle is  the  tearing  down  process.  In- 
valids should  practice  these  exercises 
on  relaxed  muscles,  generating  and 

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storing  up  energy.  Distraction  of 
any  kind  may  be  controlled  by  man- 
agement of  the  breath  thru  inspira- 
tion, retention,  and  exhalation. 

There  are  many  movements  for 
developing  exercises.  The  need  is  to 
have  a  few  effective  ones  and  prac- 
tice them  daily.  The  following  ex- 
ercise is  one  of  the  most  important 
and  taught  by  one  of  the  greatest 
teachers  in  Europe  for  the  attain- 
ment of  poise,  deep  breathing,  and  a 
fine  carriage.  Carefully  follow  and 
think  out  these  movements  for  secur- 
ing the  opening  and  lifting  of  the 
entire  body: — 

No.  1  (a)  Stand  on  ball  of 
foot,  arms  hanging  at  side,  rising 
to  the  toes  as  the  hands  describe  an 
upward  and  outward  circle,  reaching 
the  hands  out  to  their  farthest  limit 

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in  front  and  in  line  with  the  shoul- 
der, with  each  thumb  and  forefinger 
held  together  at  the  tips. 

(b)  Describe  with  these  finger 
tips  a  line  straight  out  to  the  extreme 
sides  as  if  spinning  a  fine  thread. 

(c)  With  arms  extended  turn 
palms  up,  bending  the  hands  over, 
touching  the  shoulder  with  the  finger 
tips  (holding  them  in  this  position). 

(d)  Bring  the  elbows  straight 
out  to  the  front. 

(e)  Swing  the  elbows  straight 
back  in  place  at  the  sides  with  elbows 
bent,  leaving  hands  level  with  the 
waist  line,  weight  on  ball  of  foot. 
This  gives  perfect  standing  position 
with  the  chest  high  and  advancing. 

To  use  this  for  a  general  exercise 
and  not  merely  for  position,  when 
the  elbows  are  brought  to  the  sides 

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at  (e),  use  for  the  last  movement  the 
extending  of  the  hands  to  the  front, 
and  describe  part  of  a  circle  as  in 
supplication,  thus  spraying  your  im- 
mediate environment  with  the 
thoughts  you  desire  to  see  mani- 
fested.    Repeat  from  10  to  20  times. 

An  affirmation  to  be  used  with  this 
exercise  is:  Lifting  the  head  and 
body  high:  "I  am  open  on  my  inner 
side  to  the  inexhaustible  ocean  of  in- 
finite love  and  wisdom;  thru  the 
working  of  this  power  I  (extending 
the  hands  at  close  of  exercise)  mani- 
fest health,  or  peace,  or  joy,  or  what- 
ever specific  thing  is  desired." 
Whenever  a  change  of  thought  is  de- 
sired, take  this  exercise  with  the  af- 
firmation, if  only  for  five  minutes. 

No.  2.  Hands  at  side,  weight  on 
toes;  inhale  as  you  swing  arms  in 

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large  curve  over  head,  bringing  them 
together  in  front  and  touching  floor 
with  tips  of  fingers ;  exhale  as  you  go 
back  in  same  curve.  Bend  body  at 
waist,  but  not  at  knees.  Repeat  10 
to  20  times. 

No.  3.  Weight  on  ball  of  foot, 
hands  at  waist,  keep  face  to  the 
front ;  inhale  as  body  is  turned  to  ex- 
treme right,  exhale  as  body  is  brought 
to  position.  Repeat  6  to  10  times 
with  each  side  and  close  with  hands 
on  hips;  lower  the  upper  body  from 
the  waist,  completely  relax  and  move 
it  in  a  circle  around  the  body. 

No.  4.  Hands  at  waist,  describe 
circle  with  foot  as  the  leg  is  swung 
over  a  chair  and  increase  height  as 
practice  grows.  6  to  10  times  with 
each  foot. 

No.  5.   (a)   Hands  on  hips,  inhale, 

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describe  high  curve  with  chin,  mov- 
ing head  slowly  and  as  far  as  pos- 
sible to  right  side,  exhaling  as  return 
to  front  is  made.  Repeat  with  left 
side,  (b)  Extend  chin  outward  and 
in  high  curve  to  as  low  a  point  as 
possible  on  chest,  return  in  same 
curve,  exhaling  and  relaxing,  (c) 
Relax  head  until  it  is  perfectly  loose, 
then  swing  it  slowly  around  in  a 
complete  circle.  This  should  always 
close  the  head  exercise.  This  will 
destroy  a  double  chin. 

Begin  and  close  the  exercises  with 
No.  1  or  No.  2. 

For  reducing  flesh  about  the  hips, 
in  addition  to  the  leg  exercise,  lie  flat 
on  the  floor,  raising  the  body  to  sit- 
ting position  and  lower  it  without 
assistance  from  the  hands,  always  on 
the  breath. 

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The  body  held  in  a  tense  position 
with  the  spine  stiffened  and  bent 
back  is  not  only  vulgar,  emphasizing 
the  fact  of  lack  of  training,  but  pos- 
itively injurious  thru  the  pressure 
brought  to  bear  upon  the  nerve  tis- 
sue in  the  spine.  The  upper  part  of 
the  body  should  be  flexible,  shoulders 
flat.  The  first  exercise  develops  a 
perfect  carriage.  An  additional  help 
may  be  used  by  drawing  a  straight 
line  from  the  center  of  shoulder  bone 
to  center  of  hip  bone.  Lift  the  chest 
and  lower  the  shoulders. 

From  having  control  of  the  breath, 
understanding  how  to  inhale  and  ex- 
hale, combining  breath  with  thought, 
the  next  step  is  Concentration  and 
Meditation  thru  which  every  sepa- 
rate and  divided  interest  may  be  uni- 
fied in  a  self-directed  impulse. 

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PART  III. 


AWAKENING 


Aspiration.      The  Subconscious    Mind.     Law 

of  Suggestion,  Concentration,  Meditation, 

Affirmation.   The  Silence.    Sleep  as  the 

Great  Opportunity  for  Development. 


If  I  should  falter  more  or  less 

In  my  great  task  of  happiness, 

If  I  should  move  among  my  race, 

And  show  no  glorious  morning  face, 

If  beams  from  happy  human  eyes  have  moved  me 

not, 
If  morning  skies,  books,  and  my  food  and  summer 

rain 
Knock  on  my  stubborn  heart  in  vain, 
Lord,  thy  most  pointed  pleasure  take 
And  stab  my  spirit  broad  awake  ; 
Or,  Lord,  if  still  obdurate  I, 
Choose  thou,  before  my  spirit  die, 
Some  piercing  pain,  some  killing  sin, 
And  to  my  dead  heart  run  them  in. 

—Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 


PSYCHCOMA. 


AWAKENING. 

jWAKENING  is  the  being 
£^  born  again,  the  entering 
upon  a  process  of  spirit- 
ual growth  from  spiritual 
infancy  to  mastership, 
dependent  upon  a  nourish- 
ment of  food  peculiar  to  its 
needs.  Every  normal  proc- 
ess of  life  and  nature  symbolizes  the 
supernormal  needs.  As  our  food 
grows  our  physical  body,  so  does  that 
which  feeds  the  spiritual  self  grow 
its  substance. 

The  food  of  the  soul  is  aspiration. 
Spiritual  maturity  does  not  happen. 
The  soul  only  stirs  in  its  sleep  at 
first,  from  impacts  from  without,  and 
sinks  into  lethargy  as  the  experiences 

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pass,  conscious  only  of  itself  in  all 
the  world,  as  it  seeks  response  in  the 
contentment  of  material  life.  Only 
by  constant  recurrence  of  stimuli 
can  awakening  come.  Just  as  the 
connecting  paths  are  made  between 
the  brain  centers  by  presenting  the 
same  stimuli  again  and  again,  and 
a  vibration  set  up  that  forces  its  own 
track  of  communication  like  threads 
across  the  soft  substance,  so,  in  like 
manner,  every  thought  has  its  vibra- 
tory action  of  silent  force  in  the  sub- 
conscious. For  every  act  on  the 
physical  plane  there  is  a  cell  inflation 
in  the  brain,  and  whatever  is  ex- 
pressed is  also  impressed  and  the 
process  is  duplicated  by  the  super- 
conscious  activities. 

When   a   soul   is   sufficiently   dis- 
turbed to  cognize  repeated  impacts 

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from  without,  a  regular  avenue  of 
vibration  is  established  thru  which 
experience  is  poured  to  waken  the 
dreamer.  The  phenomenon  of  a 
double  personality  or  many  person- 
alities is  but  One  man,  One  soul  in 
partial  stages  of  coma,  responsive  to 
some  stimuli  and  dumb  to  others. 

The  subconscious  mind  is  the 
potent  and  unseen  magnet  polarized 
to  its  feeling  or  emotional  self.  It 
remembers  and  stores  up  knowledge, 
it  scents  danger  where  none  can  be 
seen.  It  knows  where  words  are 
foolish.  Spiritual  apprehension  is 
the  thought  of  which  human  action  is 
mere  utterance,  its  own  sure  guide 
is  the  motive  and  purpose  within 
itself.  It  obeys  and  becomes  our 
servant  or  master  just  as  we  elect. 
When   it  is  fed  upon   aspiration   it 

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parallels  its  growth  with  its  quality 
and  environs  itself  with  it. 

Aspiration  is  the  irrigation  of 
ideals.  The  magnet  for  any  result 
is  thought  potentized  by  aspiration; 
then  you  may  ask  what  you  will,  it 
will  bring  it  to  pass. 

The  method  of  communication 
with  the  subconscious  is  thru  the  law 
of  suggestion  which  becomes  self- 
direction  and  centered  in  a  thought 
matrix  enters  into  relationship  with 
its  idea  and  radiating  it,  grows  by 
its  own  intention. 

The  subconscious  mind  sees  and  is 
capable  of  knowing  and  revealing  to 
us  all  things.  Not  that  it  functions 
on  various  planes  but  that  the  aura 
of  each  person  holds  as  in  solution 
the  content  of  past  experience,  and 
intelligible   to   subconscious   percep- 

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tion.  Apparitions,  psychic  visions, 
etc.,  are  believed  by  many  psychol- 
ogists to  be  a  subconscious  perception 
of  things  near  or  remote,  as  they  are 
or  have  been,  not  as  they  will  be. 
Futurity  is  not  a  subconscious  fac- 
ulty. It  may  discern  near  events 
already  foreshadowed  in  the  aura. 
The  high  potency  life  makes  no  reck- 
oning with  psychic  visions  and  ap- 
paritions which  imperil  the  dreamer 
thru  his  own  instincts.  We  are 
obsessed  by  ideas,  not  by  dead  en- 
tities. Bodies  are  not  taken  posses- 
sion of  by  astral  imps.  The  doorway 
to  this  life  in  the  body  is  thru  birth 
and  race  tradition.  The  planes  are 
separated  by  non-conductors,  each 
plane  recording  its  own  experience, 
which  is  merely  an  extension  in  con- 
sciousness.   Developing  positive  spir- 

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itual  power  does  not  lie  in  the 
regions  of  automatic  writing,  or  in 
paralyzing  any  brain  center  thru 
self-hypnotism,  but  in  raising  the 
plane  of  consciousness  thru  a  posi- 
tive process  of  analysis,  proof,  and 
understanding,  keeping  in  the  great 
highway  of  sane  scientific  revelation, 
not  side  tracked  and  lost  in  the  coma 
of  conceit  and  ignorance. 

The  subconscious  activity  is  forced 
into  action  by  the  mental  machinery 
which,  as  it  works,  involves  every 
atom  of  the  person.  The  objective 
mind  obtains  during  waking  coma 
and  registers  its  reflexes  as  emotion 
and  will  on  the  subconscious;  then 
when  demands  are  made  upon  the 
will  it  responds  as  it  has  been 
trained.  True  will  power  is  adapt- 
ability.    Degenerated  will  power  is 

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obstinacy.  The  first  belongs  to  ripe 
understanding,  the  latter  to  child- 
hood and  senility.  One  is  immov- 
able and  inert,  unable  to  cope  with 
circumstances,  the  other  is  educated 
for  response  and  increased  power. 

The  subconscious  is  the  totality  of 
impressions.  Fleeting  experiences 
do  not  register.  No  action  becomes 
habit,  no  method  resolves  itself  into 
principle  until  it  is  carried  over  and 
lodged  in  the  subconscious  convolu- 
tions of  the  psychic  body.  How  to 
tap  its  abundant  source  is  to  appre- 
hend the  Law  of  Suggestion.  This 
is  a  communication  with  our  real 
self  in  another  and  more  potent  form. 
No  one  who  is  familiar  with  the 
methods  of  ordinary  scientific  educa- 
tion to-day  questions  the  law  of  sug- 
gestion.    The  government  of  France 

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defends  and  supports  its  methods  for 
medical  purposes  in  preference  to 
giving  anesthetics.  The  facts  of 
hypnotism  prove  that  the  subcon- 
scious mind  will  execute  the  com- 
mands of  the  objective  mind. 

In  therapeutic  hypnotic  treatment 
a  definite  process  is  entered  upon  and 
the  steps  outlined  by  the  operator. 
In  spirtual  awakening  the  goal  alone 
is  held  before  the  subconscious  and 
it  is  left  to  itself,  to  right  itself  by 
a  light  superior  to  the  direction  of 
the  objective  mind. 

No  one  method  can  disclose  the 
pearl  of  great  price  to  all  questioning 
souls.  Each  temperament  makes  its 
peculiar  demands;  there  are  many 
ways  for  many  men,  but  one  goal. 
Among  the  sayings  of  Jesus  recently 
found  at  Oxyrinchus  is  the  follow- 

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ing:  "Let  not  him  who  seeks  cease 
until  he  finds;  and  when  he  finds  he 
shall  be  astonished;  astonished,  he 
shall  reach  the  kingdom,  and  having 
reached  the  kingdom  he  shall  rest." 

In  these  days  of  predigested  foods 
short  cuts  to  a  high  potency  life  are 
inevitable,  but  there  is  no  patent  ap- 
propriation of  infinite  love ;  the  whole 
nature  is  to  be  retuned  and  through- 
out a  lifetime  we  are  given  opportu- 
nities to  test  experience  and  recon- 
struct results.  "Ask  thy  lone  soul 
what  laws  are  plain  to  thee,  thee  and 
no  other,  that  is  the  law  for  thee." 

So  long  as  one  aspires,  daily  put- 
ting ideals  into  circulation  thru  the 
avenues  of  homemaking,  housekeep- 
ing, business  relationships,  keeping 
much  in  the  open  air,  there  is  no 
danger     of     morbid     introspection. 

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Unless  we  make  use  of  our  ideals 
they  are  nothing  but  spiritual  an- 
esthetics. 

When  the  awakening  comes  rapidly 
the  novitiate  overflows  with  precious 
truth  and  would  proclaim  his  way 
as  the  only  way.  Remember  it  was 
your  way,  it  may  not  be  another's 
way.  God  is  good;  he  meets  us 
where  he  finds  us  and  lures  us  heav- 
enward according  to  our  interests 
and  needs.  By  living  our  beliefs  in- 
stead of  talking  about  them  we  win 
where  words  would  lose.  Let  devel- 
opment have  her  way  and  your  own 
will  come  to  you  in  joy,  work,  love, 
and  prosperity. 

You  can  have  no  permanent  values 
until  you  radiate  a  vibration  that 
draws  the  demand  for  which  you  are 
the  supply.     You  must  be  the  mag- 

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net  that  attracts,  you,  yourself  are 
it.     Be  still  and  know ! 

Do  not  demand  nor  limit  the  ac- 
tion of  another.  A  mother  longing 
for  a  letter  from  her  son  long  over- 
due, grasped  his  photograph,  de- 
manding with  intense  feeling  that  he 
write  to  her  at  once.  He  wrote  that 
same  hour  a  cruel,  defiant,  graceless 
letter.  If  she  had  been  patient, 
sending  out  continued  love  and  no 
restrictions,  a  different  mood  might 
have  dictated  a  different  letter. 

If  you  are  a  worker  do  not  think 
you  can  make  another  person  buy 
your  work.  Mental  sandbagging 
meets  with  mental  resistance.  They 
will  get  your  thought  above  anything 
you  can  say.  You  exchange  subcon- 
scioush/.  You  cannot  go  out  and 
attract  friends.       You  must  be  the 

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magnet  that  attracts.  You  cannot 
transfer  the  thought  matrix  to  an- 
other and  command  its  growth  as  you 
must  when  you  order  your  own 
power.  Do  not  attempt  to  control 
another.  Do  not  try  to  make  of 
yourself  a  special  providence  to  every 
one  you  meet.  Wait  until  you  are 
asked,  lest  you  be  considered  an  ob- 
structionist. The  form  of  suggestion 
should  be  for  self-awakening  and  de- 
velopment to  increase  and  intensify 
one's  worth.  The  world  pays  for  the 
best.  Go  in  to  win,  in  yourself,  not 
to  hypnotize  any  one  else.  You  will 
not  need  to.  Do  not  separate  your- 
self from  your  work.  Your  work  is 
you,  put  yourself  in  it,  it  is  then  alive 
and  attracts  attention.  Send  out 
thoughts  of  love  and  freedom  to  the 
whole  world  to  help,  but  not  for  per- 

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sonal  influence.  You  need  all  your 
time  for  your  own  mental  house- 
cleaning;  adverse  currents  are  play- 
ing across  your  life  constantly,  and 
as  you  add  to  the  power  of  good  you 
subtract  from  the  power  of  evil. 

When  knowledge  of  this  human 
dynamo  is  the  common  property  of  the 
race,  become  so  thru  centuries  of 
subconscious  consent,  affirming  invol- 
untary action  on  the  part  of  the 
mind,  refusing  the  unfit  and  know- 
ing the  good,  we  can  hope  to  have  a 
responsive  mind  as  we  have  a  phys- 
ical body.  It  has  taken  centuries  to 
produce  subconscious  regulation  of 
the  circulation,  and  it  will  take  cen- 
turies more  for  the  gathering  of 
truth  sediment  sufficient  to  manifest 
natural  and  easy  discrimination,  and 
by    added    reincarnations    the    final 

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truth  of  cause  and  effect  become  a 
law  in  the  perceptions. 

There  is  more  in  life  than  a  cut 
and  dried  philosophy  adopted  as  prin- 
ciples behind  which  small  souls  re- 
treat with  an  air  of  superiority  when- 
ever a  difficult  situation  demands 
vigorous,  broad,  and  sympathetic 
treatment.  Truth  has  been  called 
by  Professor  James  "a  species  of 
good" ;  as  such,  truth  becomes  a  proc- 
ess, not  one  small  notion  nor  any  one 
dogma,  and  it  permeates  all  acts  and 
filters  thru  all  effort.  It  is  a  be- 
coming process,  not  a  fixed  state,  ad- 
justing and  readjusting  as  higher 
values  emerge  and  release  higher 
forms  of  truth. 

The  reflex  of  intellectual  convic- 
tion is  stored  in  the  subconscious  and 
becomes    our    power    as    initiative. 

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The  Psychcoma  is  buffeted  thru  new 
applications  of  old  truth  or  species  of 
good,  these  experiences  being  the 
alphabet  of  the  divine  vocabulary 
thru  which  we  learn  by  constant 
analysis  the  laws  of  life.  We  learn 
to  know  when  there  are  "open  doors," 
when  we  should  go  and  come;  we 
allow  small  truth  values  to  demon- 
strate themselves  thru  every  expe- 
rience, rising  higher  and  higher  in 
perception  as  augmented  data  clari- 
fies vision.  This  is  a  clairvoyant  sight 
which  is  positive  awareness,  not 
psychic  negation.  We  cease  hurry, 
we  dare  to  wait,  we  learn  to  know 
that  success  must  mean  some  addi- 
tion to  the  sum  of  human  happiness, 
we  have  the  courage  to  count  the 
worth  of  ideas  before  money.  A 
truth,    therefore,    is    not    absolute, 

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rather  is  it  relative.  All  truth  is 
precious  but  not  sacred.  Nothing  is 
more  sacred  than  the  awakening 
from  the  soul-sleep;  this  is  the  fruit 
of  truth,  it  is  not  a  question  of  facts 
but  of  vision.  Each  man  becomes 
an  individual  explorer  into  the  deeps 
of  his  own  life;  faith  is  his  unseen 
guide,  the  symbol  of  light  in  the  vis- 
ible world. 

Physical  life  is  the  ego  exerting 
itself  into  matter,  and  it  withdraws 
with  the  result  of  the  effort.  The 
self  would  reach  into  the  unseen  and 
demand  the  consolation  of  the  re- 
assembling of  its  family,  or  such 
members  of  it  as  are  agreeable,  in  a 
future  state.  Awake!  Life  is  ex- 
perience! You  needed  just  such  hu- 
man relations  to  develop  and  awaken ; 
don't  cling,   another  life  will  draw 

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you  into  other  filial  relationships 
and  obligations  with  another  family; 
all  life  is  a  brotherhood,  so  give  to 
every  living  creature  sympathy  and 
love. 

Be  observant  of  hindrances,  they 
are  friendly.  When  the  inner  process 
of  thought  is  making  use  of  aspira- 
tion and  meditation  one  need  give  no 
anxious  attention  to  obstacles.  Con- 
structive thought  leaves  behind  all 
that  cannot  be  used  in  the  upbuild- 
ing process.  All  instability,  anxiety, 
uncertainty  and  pain  are  ways  for 
producing  a  full-fledged,  self-poised 
human  being,  and  when  sorrow  has 
done  its  work  release  will  come;  but 
wait  patiently,  let  the  law  work. 
We  would  like  to  say  when  the  release 
will  come  but  we  do  not  know. 
Prepare  the  soil  of  your  own  nature 

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for   the  incoming  peace,   it  cannot 
enter  until  strife  is  stilled. 

The  silence  is  "the  secret  place  of 
the  Most  High."  It  is  "The  Most 
High  Place" ;  your  most  high.  Higher 
than  that  we  cannot  go  now.  It  is 
the  meeting  place  between  the  human 
and  divine.  No  prophet  has  divined 
a  relationship  between  the  Creator 
and  the  created  that  transcends  God 
as  a  loving  father  and  we  his  chil- 
dren. Know  that  the  Father  knows 
what  is  best  for  you;  that  while  he 
works  you  also  must  work  and  sup- 
plement his  work.  Pray  unceas- 
ingly and  when  you  say  "Thy  will 
be  done"  get  behind  that  statement 
and  "will  that  God's  will  be  done." 
Make  it  your  strongest  affirmation. 
This  is  not  to  be  taken  in  the  spirit 
of  resignation  and  renunciation,  but 

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for  positive  accomplishment  to  which 
you  may  tack  your  highest  and 
deepest  motives  and  hopes.  Renun- 
ciation is  an  unhappy  word  for  out- 
grown impedimenta.  We  easily  re- 
nounce what  we  have  outgrown.  To 
renounce  is  to  "let  go,"  and  may  be  a 
positive  process  in  acquiring  power 
and  not  negative  resignation  in  any 
sense. 

Professor  James  calls  prayer 
"commerce  with  God."  The  very 
attitude  is  subjective.  You  make 
yourself  negative  to  the  highest  good 
of  which  you  are  capable  of  receiv- 
ing. Say  often,  "I  am  negative  to 
God  alone  and  positive  to  all  the 
world."  You  do  not  want  second- 
hand thoughts,  you  do  not  need  to  be 
on  the  wires  for  warmed-over  trans- 
mitted messages.    Tap  the  source,  go 

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direct  to  God,  talk  to  him;  this  is 
the  spirit  of  truth,  the  Comforter, 
the  Holy  Spirit.  Such  a  life  is  not 
a  passive  life,  awakening  is  alert- 
ness! awareness!  The  coma  yields 
to  perception ! 

You  do  not  get  into  the  silence,  you 
earn  the  silence  thru  concentration 
and  meditation.  Concentration  and 
meditation  is  an  advance  step  which 
begins  where  breath  control  leaves 
off.  From  having  control  of  the 
breath,  understanding  how  to  inhale 
and  exhale,  the  power  of  thought  to 
develop  harmony,  now  begins  the  de- 
velopment of  the  power  of  concentra- 
tion and  meditation  for  specific  needs. 

Concentration  is  defined  in  chem- 
istry as  "to  intensify  in  strength  by 
removing  valueless  constituents." 
Meditation  is  "to  fix  in  the  mind." 

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Concentration  of  thought  force  is  a 
composite  blending  and  co-ordination 
of  fugitive  yet  affiliated  impulses. 
The  polarization  of  any  thought  cen- 
ter guarantees  the  dissolving  of  every 
unrelated  and  undesirable  element. 
Intentness  magnetizes  that  thought 
center  and  a  mental  reflex  is  obtained 
which  constitutes  a  demonstration. 

Concentration  is  a  positive  condi- 
tion and  meditation  is  the  negative. 
Concentration  first  selects,  reasons, 
determines,  then  it  invites  the  sub- 
conscious thru  meditation  to  give  up 
its  secrets.  Thru  the  silence  of  con- 
centration comes  the  stillness  of  the 
mental  machinery  and  the  conscious 
mind  demands  and  affirms,  then  waits 
and  suspends  action  for  meditation  to 
yield  its  answer.  The  one  goal  is  the 
cultivation  of  the  subliminal  self  so 

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that  it  may  direct  instead  of  being 
directed  by  the  objective  physical 
mind.  The  subliminal  self  could  do 
all  things  and  tell  us  all  things  if  we 
would  educate  our  motives  to  express 
truth  instead  of  expediency,  and 
whatever  its  bidding,  it  will  be  modi- 
fied by  the  dreamer's  capacity  to 
understand  and  rightly  value  truth. 

Going  into  the  silence  is  not  an  ex- 
perience given  over  to  devotees;  it  is 
a  normal  conscious  process  for  self- 
development.  It  cannot  be  appro- 
priated, it  must  be  earned.  There 
is  no  other  way  to  reach  it  except 
thru  concentration  and  meditation. 
Whenever  there  is  failure  to  realize 
the  silence  there  has  been  neglect  in 
preparing  the  way. 

The  conscious  and  the  subconscious 
are  distinct   and   unrelated  spheres 

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of  consciousness.  Thru  concentra- 
tion and  meditation  is  sought  the 
union  of  the  two. 

The  most  important  consideration 
is  to  have  a  certain  time  and  place. 
If  it  is  possible  have  a  tiny  room  for 
this  purpose  with  nothing  there  but 
a  table  and  chair  or  prie  Dieu,  and 
a  picture  or  symbol  upon  which  the 
eyes  and  thoughts  may  rest  in  in- 
spiration. 

Most  important  of  all  is  to  have  a 
definite  time.  Then  keep  that  ap- 
pointment with  your  own  soul.  It 
is  your  waking  hour,  a  precious  mo- 
ment ;  be  as  regardful  of  this  moment 
as  you  would  to  any  demand  from  a 
friend.  Enter  into  this  communion 
as  expectant  as  you  await  the  ring- 
ing up  of  the  curtain  at  the  play. 
When   you   have  established   an   in- 

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timacy  with  your  own  soul,  there  will 
come  a  time  when  you  will  require 
no  set  time  or  place  to  enter  this  cos- 
mic peace,  but  every  unoccupied  mo- 
ment, the  time  spent  on  street  cars 
and  every  moment  of  waiting  will 
give  this  opportunity. 

You  concentrate  when  your  whole 
interest  is  involved.  This  is  induced 
thru  forcing  the  attention  to  follow 
certain  methods  until  externals  drop 
away.  There  is  no  more  effectual 
method  than  to  close  the  eyes  and  ob- 
serve mentally  one's  own  breathing 
as  given  in  "Transmutation,"  follow- 
ing as  an  appointed  guard  on  duty, 
slowly  visualizing  the  process  and 
silently  saying,  "I  now  inhale  with 
the  lungs,  now  with  the  diaphragm, 
now  the  abdomen,  now  centering  at 
the  solar  plexus;  I  exhale  with  the 

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abdomen,  now  with  the  diaphragm, 
now  with  the  lungs,"  ending  with 
spraying  the  thought  and  breath  up- 
ward along  the  spine  and  then  as  in 
a  shower  over  the  entire  body. 

In  training  the  attention  to  con- 
sciously follow  each  movement  with 
accuracy,  in  a  few  moments  dis- 
tractions cease  and  from  the  forced 
manipulation  of  the  breath  quiet 
comes,  and  the  matters  about  which 
you  desire  knowledge  may  be  focussed 
in  the  mind  and  one  by  one  the  ques- 
tions considered  reasonably,  quietly, 
firmly.  Say  "I  seek  to  know  'this' 
and  'this',"  naming  what  you  are 
working  out.  At  first  work  for  con- 
ditions, not  things.  Seek  to  man- 
ifest peace,  joy,  harmony,  health,  and 
take  but  one  statement  for  a  medita- 
tion, varying  the  statement  from  day 

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to  day  as  desired.  When  you  resolve 
to  awake,  you  will  mentally  assort 
during  concentration  your  inclina- 
tions, capacity,  and  avenues  open  to 
you.  You  can  concentrate  upon  and 
cultivate  successfully  but  one  line  of 
work  at  a  time,  and  every  bit  of 
experience  will  assume  a  possible 
relation  to  it.  Slowly  analyze  your 
problem  step  by  step,  pushing  effect 
upon  cause  back  to  a  starting  point. 
When  reason  has  done  its  best, 
slowly  relax  thru  the  measured 
breathing,  release  all  responsibility, 
let  go  of  the  world  and  ideas,  and 
say,  "I  now  release  thru  my  con- 
scious mind  the  wisdom  regarding 
(mention  the  subject  under  consider- 
ation) ;"  or,  "I  rise  into  the  realm  of 
all  knowledge  and  ask  to  be  shown  the 
way."     Then  sit  in  the  silence  and 

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enjoy  it  from  ten  minutes  to  one 
hour,  feeling  yourself  the  center  of  a 
circle  with  all  distractions  far  out 
on  and  beyond  the  circumference. 
This  is  meditation  and  the  Silence. 
Confusion  is  on  the  circumference. 
Get  back  into  the  cosmic  peace  and 
abundance  and  "let  go"  the  entangle- 
ment of  cross  purposes.  You  cannot 
attain  concentration  on  nothing  and 
you  cannot  maintain  meditation  on 
nothing.  The  silence  is  dynamic  with 
awareness,  which  polarizes  on  the 
plane  of  aspiration.  You  may  raise 
your  vibrations  to  whatever  level  you 
desire.  Feel  the  stillness  of  your 
thought,  your  body,  your  being,  the 
universe.  Feel  yourself  the  center 
of  that  universe.  Surround  yourself 
with  the  inhalation  of  the  spirit  of 
truth  or  God;  take  a  spirit  bath  in  its 

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clarifying  atmosphere;  see  none  but 
yourself  and  God ;  inspire  the  univer- 
sal will  and  so  magnetize  your  con- 
sciousness with  your  oneness  with 
God.  So  shall  your  entire  environ- 
ment vibrate  with  power  to  draw  the 
highest  to  you.  Thru  your  union  with 
this  silent  brotherhood  of  thought  a  vi- 
bration is  intensified  which  includes 
you  in  this  rhythm.  You  become  a 
channel  for  all  like  motives  and  the 
focus  is  in  your  environment. 
Friends,  home,  all  material  things 
respond  to  the  law  of  vibration. 
Congestion  is  confusion  and  disorder. 
I  know  of  no  more  powerful  correc- 
tive than  forcing  one's  self  to  keep 
one's  belongings  in  perfect  order  and 
condition.  Disorderly  closets  and 
bureau  drawers  are  demoralizing  in 
a  real  way.     Every  outward  symbol 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

sensed  deeply  enough  to  be  felt,  im- 
ages itself  upon  the  superconscious, 
which,  in  turn,  reflects  itself  in 
events. 

To  invite  prosperity  and  to  have  a 
part  in  the  circulation  of  money, 
your  own  circulation  must  be  free 
from  congestion.  Hoarding  things 
makes  a  plague  spot  of  decayed  cells. 
Attics  and  trunks  stored  with  unused 
things  are  a  menace.  Distribution 
and  order  is  the  law  of  inflowing 
supply  and  no  bargain  days  except 
for  needs.  Affirm  "I  give  and  re- 
ceive money  freely."  This  does  not 
mean  indiscriminately  and  waste- 
fully,  but  wisely  and  well.  We 
sometimes  make  too  much  of  money 
when  we  say  we  do  not  want  it,  be- 
cause we  do  want  our  needs  supplied, 
and  merely  saying  it  does  not  con- 

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vince.  One  does  not  acquire  spirit- 
ual power  because  he  is  rich  or  poor, 
but  in  spite  of  it. 

The  joy  affirmation  does  not  re- 
main in  the  ether  but  must  be  mani- 
fested. So  with  peace  and  health; 
these  conditions  involve  material 
processes  and  can  and  do  manifest  as 
money.  Fill  yourself  with  the  ele- 
mental source,  it  will  assume  as  many 
shapes  as  your  needs  dictate.  What- 
ever thought  you  wish  realized,  think 
intently  with  the  whole  being,  soul 
and  body.  This  law  is  inherent  in 
every  life.  The  dreamer  produces  a 
dream  parallel  to  his  awakening. 
The  condition  of  manifestation  is  to 
be,  rather  than  to  merely  believe. 
To  be  involves  bringing  into  subjec- 
tion every  faculty,  to  be  able  to  order 
our  thought  atmosphere  and  concen- 

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trate  at  a  moment's  need  so  that  neg- 
ative conditions  shall  immediately 
resolve  themselves  into  positive  con- 
ditions; in  short,  to  polarize  every 
separate  and  divided  interest  into  an 
undivided,  universal  spirit. 

Music  study  would  cease  to  be 
drudgery  if  the  pupil  could  be  taught 
to  read  the  music  silently,  feel  the 
melody,  get  into  the  rhythm  and  then 
play  it.  All  study  would  yield  double 
returns  if  one  entered  the  subjective 
state  for  a  short  time  before  trying 
to  think  or  write.  You  do  not  need 
to  use  force,  you  obtain  the  silence 
and  then  speak  your  desire. 

Thru  the  silence  a  strong  desire 
makes  connection  with  other  and 
needed  factors.  The  result  may  not 
be  anything  we  counted  upon,  but 
unexpectedly  a  turn   in  our  affairs 

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is  accomplished.  All  education  and 
development  are  subconscious.  What- 
ever book  is  studied,  turn  its  pages 
as  you  impress  certain  statements 
upon  the  mind,  saying,  "I  bring  into 
my  conscious  mind  the  knowledge  of 

,"  or  "Now  do  I  draw  from 

my  superconscious  mind  the  knowl- 
edge of  this ,"  or,  "Now  do  I 

bring  into  manifestation  my  knowl- 
edge of  ,"  or,  "I  give  forth 

what  is  in  me."  If  the  mind  wan- 
ders, reset  it  a  thousand  times  if 
necessary  and  know  what  you  are 
thinking  about  and  why.  Spend  no 
time  in  denials,  an  affirmation  holds 
within  itself  a  denial.  The  only 
form  a  denial  should  take  is  to  direct 
the  subconscious  to  "let  go"  of  cer- 
tain tendencies,  saying,  "I  let  go  of 
fear,  or  sickness,"  etc.       This  is  a 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

command  without  the  use  of  not. 
The  physiological  process  forces  in- 
flation of  the  group  of  cells  corre- 
sponding to  the  thought  center.  If 
such  a  group  is  inflated  thru  denial, 
then  you  have  made  one  more  ob- 
stacle in  the  way  of  affirmation. 

The  night  time  should  mean  oppor- 
tunity for  supplementing  our  work 
and  wisdom.  The  cessation  of  the 
physical  functions  releases  the  soul 
from  its  control  and  limitation. 
The  experiments  of  Professor  Elmer 
Gates  at  Washington  are  open  to  any 
one,  and  the  experiences  of  inventors 
and  students  have  given  us  data 
for  the  subconscious  activities.  Not 
long  ago  a  student  spent  half  the 
night  trying  to  solve  a  problem. 
Worn  out  with  repeated  failure  he 
went  to  bed.     When  he  awakened  in 

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PSYCHCOMA 

the  morning  he  found  the  problem 
completed  on  the  paper  as  he  had  left 
it.  He  realized  that  he  had  been  a 
somnambulist  and  that  his  subcon- 
scious mind  had  given  up  the  knowl- 
edge he  had  failed  to  perceive.  In 
the  days  when  witches  were  burned 
this  would  have  been  credited  to 
witches  or  to  a  spirit  who  had  inter- 
vened to  help,  but  we  know  better 
now. 

The  soul  does  not  go  to  the  Hima- 
layas, nor  London,  nor  some  other 
planet.  It  is  here  but  released  from 
the  limitation  of  the  mental  and 
physical  machinery  and  awake  on  its 
own  subconscious  plane  where  feeling 
is  sight,  will  is  understanding,  and 
perception  is  hearing. 

You  do  not  send  your  soul  or  sub- 
conscious mind  out;  you,  yourself,  go, 

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or  rather,  you  awake  subconsciously. 
A  last  thought  to  float  in  the  con- 
sciousness is,  "I  go  to-night  to  seek 
wisdom  and  to  manifest  it  thru  my 
conscious  mind."  If  some  special 
need  exists  say,  "I  go  to-night  to  con- 
nect with  (work  or  money) 

and  to  bring  it  into  manifestation." 
For  a  long  time  the  novitiate  would 
better  confine  himself  to  charging 
the  subconscious  mind  at  the  moment 
of  sleep  with  "I  seek  wisdom  from 
the  infinite  source."  Be  not  too 
hungry  for  things. 

The  purpose  of  sleep  is  not  merely 
to  rest  the  body  thru  the  suspension 
of  the  mental  machinery,  but  it  is  a 
dream  just  as  full  of  activity  as  the 
waking  dream,  and  we  may  double 
our  power  and  usefulness  by  direct- 
ing it.     The  daytime  is  nothing  com- 

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pared  to  it.  When  the  power  of  self- 
direction  is  understood  the  daytime 
will  be  used  as  a  secondary  condition 
in  which  the  objective  consciousness 
waits  to  receive  and  adjust  the  results 
accomplished  during  sleep.  One 
need  never  worry  nor  hurry,  simply 
affirm  and  wait,  never  passive  but 
with  the  perceptions  active  in  the 
highest  degree,  making  ready  for  the 
manifestation  of  the  thing  to  be 
wrought  out. 

We  should  lie  down  to  sleep  not 
from  weariness,  but  because  we  wish 
to  go  consciously  into  the  subcon- 
scious alive  to  the  importance  of 
receiving  what  it  has  to  give.  Wel- 
come sleep  as  a  privilege,  taking  time 
to  lay  aside  all  worry,  anger,  fear, 
grief,  that  the  soul  may  be  impressed 
with  a  clear  and  definite  message,  then 

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ask  of  it  what  you  will,  so  you  require 
attention  to  but  one  thought  at  a 
time.  Keep  that  thought  uppermost 
and  insistent,  that  it  may  float  in  the 
margin  of  consciousness  and  unify 
the  impulses.  Say,  "Now  do  I  draw 
the  wisdom  of  my  inner  life  into  my 
conscious  mind,"  or,  "Now  do  I  draw 
from  my  inner  life  the  knowledge  of 

this ." 

The  time  wasted  in  undirected 
sleep  might  be  used  in  working  out 
all  life's  problems.  The  subconscious 
is  not  tired;  night  is  the  daytime  of 
the  soul  on  its  subconscious  side. 
The  student,  writer,  artist,  inventor, 
may  educate  himself  while  he  sleeps 
by  directing  the  subconscious.  Say 
with  the  last  waking  thought,  "I  de- 
mand that  this  knowledge  pass  into 
my  consciousness/'  or  for  health  say, 

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"I  restore  my  body  to-night,"  or,  "I 
now  renew  my  entire  being."  Sup- 
plement this  tremendous  power  by 
meditating  upon  the  same  subject 
during  the  appointed  silent  time. 
The  desired  knowledge  will  flow  to 
you  or  when  you  take  up  the  subject 
upon  which  the  subconscious  has 
worked  your  thoughts  will  come 
faster  than  you  can  well  manage 
them.  Demand  specific  things  if 
need  be,  but  we  sometimes  get  what 
we  ask  for  and  wish  we  had  left  it 
to  a  higher  power. 

When  the  high  potency  life  rules, 
the  moment  of  waking  and  the  be- 
ginning of  the  day  should  enunciate 
a  statement  of  rejoicing  and  thanks- 
giving regardless  of  our  personal 
opinions.  Thru  the  night  unseen 
helpers  have  companioned  you,  now 

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expect  the  unexpected,  affirm  and 
wait,  your  own  is  on  the  way  to  you. 
You  may  not  enjoy  hunger  and  va- 
rious phases  of  incompleteness,  but 
expect  and  affirm  and  work. 

As  you  waken  say,  "I  greet  the  day 
with  love  and  send  forth  joy  and 
peace  to  all  the  world,"  or,  "I  drink 
in  infinite  life  and  I  breathe  out  in- 
finite love."  Ahvays  try  to  make  a 
complete  circle  of  your  affirmation  by 
including  a  receiving  power  and  its 
manifestation,  as  "I  receive  life  from 
the  divine  source  and  I  now  manifest 
health."  Constant  affirmation  keeps 
one  positive  to  all  less  than  the  de- 
sired good. 

In  the  Revised  Version  of  the 
Bible,  Psalm  127:2  reads,  "For  so 
He  giveth  to  His  beloved  in  sleep." 
This  bit  of  ancient  wisdom  is  suggest- 

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ive.  Keep  your  material  needs,  if 
possible,  for  the  daytime  meditation 
at  first,  and  at  night  lift  yourself 
into  the  realms  of  wisdom. 

The  superconscious  self  is  a  store- 
house of  wisdom  gathered  thru 
countless  ages ;  each  for  himself  may 
gather  from  this  infinite  supply. 


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PART  IV. 


MASTERSHIP 


Cosmic  Consciousness.      Pragmatism.      Special 
Keys.     Happiness.     Dominion.     Reali- 
zation.    Healing.     Awareness. 


"  It  is  possible  that  some  stupendous  incident  may 
suddenly  surge  from  without,  from  another  world, 
from  a  new  phenomenon,  and  either  inform  our 
effort  with  definite  meaning,  or  definitively  destroy 
it.  But  we  must  proceed  on  our  way  as  though 
nothing  abnormal  could  ever  befall  us.  Did  we 
know  that  to-morrow  some  revelation,  a  message, 
for  instance,  from  a  more  ancient,  more  luminous 
planet  than  ours  were  to  root  up  our  nature,  to 
suppress  the  laws,  the  passions  and  radical  truths 
of  our  being,  our  wisest  plan  still  would  be  to  devote 
the  whole  of  to-day  to  the  study  of  these  passions, 
these  laws,  and  these  truths,  which  must  blend  and 
accord  in  our  mind ;  and  to  remain  faithful  to  the 
destiny  imposed  upon  us,  which  is  to  subdue  and,  to 
some  extent,  raise  within  and  around  us  the  obscure 
forces  of  life.  None  of  these,  perhaps,  will  sur- 
vive the  new  revelation ;  but  the  soul  of  those 
who  shall  up  to  the  end  have  fulfilled  the  mission 
that  is  pre-eminently  the  mission  of  man,  must 
inevitably  be  in  the  front  rank  of  all  to  welcome 
this  revelation." 

—  Maeterlinck,  The  Life  of  the  Bee. 


PSYCHCOMA. 


MASTERSHIP. 


ASTERSHIP  means  the  at- 
jy[_  tainment  of  cosmic  con- 
sciousness. A  oneness  with 
infinite  purpose.  The  let- 
ting go  a  handful  to  take 
hold  of  a  lifeful.  To  real- 
ize the  happiness  of  emanci- 
pation won  thru  knowledge 
of  what  man  is  and  the  supremacy 
of  the  high  potency  life.  The  awak- 
ened one  knows  the  victim  of  the 
Psychcoma  and  adjusts  himself  to  it 
as  to  a  person  under  the  influence  of 
morphine.  His  one  hope  is  that  he 
may  awaken.  To  understand  is  to 
possess  a  self-commissioned  life  for 
the  awakening  of  thousands  from 
the  death  sleep.     Mastership  is   not 

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satiety,  nor  ennui,  nor  renunciation, 
no,  none  of  these  things.  It  is 
awareness!  A  vigorous  enlightened 
insight  and  recognition,  invincible, 
unquenchable,  inextinguishable.  It 
knows  what  the  mental  apparatus 
fails  to  register,  it  divines  what  phys- 
ical sight  conceals  and  contradicts. 
It  vibrates  and  energizes  to  the  eter- 
nal purpose.  It  is  in  union  with  all 
that  is.  The  cry  of  the  awakened 
one  is,  "Give  me  wisdom." 

The  natural  instincts  which  func- 
tion easily  in  some  persons  toward 
justice  and  kindness  are  so  because 
previous  lives  have  demonstrated 
that  it  pays.  It  is  the  road  to  the 
soul's  happiness  and  that  much  has 
been  proved. 

Happiness  is  as  primitive  an  in- 
stinct  as   hunger   and   by   repeated 

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trials  a  kind  of  happiness  is  found 
that  pays.  It  is  not  preserved  as  a 
virtue  but  for  pure  elemental  self- 
protection.  Just  to  live  becomes  as 
real  a  pleasure  as  to  the  one  who  is 
lost  in  the  pleasure  of  living.  He 
perceives  the  profound  eloquence  of 
simple  things;  food,  friends,  daily 
doing  of  common  things,  retracing  all 
the  by-ways  of  youth,  finding  infinite 
pleasure  where  before  was  pain  be- 
cause he  knows  now  it  was  his  way  of 
development.  Freed  and  separated, 
he  guides  his  life  along  the  shoals 
that  threaten  other  lives,  with  his 
heart  full  of  song,  secure  in  the 
superconscious  perception  that  all  is 
love,  yet  all  is  law. 

Happiness  belongs  wholly  to  the 
subconscious.  It  is  a  reflex  and  its 
response  is  secured  just  in  proportion 

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to  the  average  of  truth  values  we 
have  made  our  own.  When  once  the 
habit  of  analysis  is  adopted  the  non- 
essentials drop  away  like  starved 
parasites.  The  affectations  and 
mimicry  of  conversational  boredom 
give  place  to  wholesome  silence,  vocal 
with  voiceless  resolve.  Ideals  are 
wrought  out  alone.  We  need  to 
know,  to  discriminate;  we  need  to 
reprove,  to  refuse  to  give  our  sanc- 
tion to  what  we  believe  to  be  wrong; 
to  have  principles  and  to  anchor  to 
them,  and,  above  all,  to  cherish 
ideals,  but  to  also  know  that  life  is 
fluid  and  only  as  we  become  atro- 
phied and  senile  do  we  cease  to  move 
from  ideal  to  ideal.  Ideals  are  high 
water  marks  of  the  souVs  capacity  to 
apprehend  the  superconscious  mes- 
sage. 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

Never  allow  a  mean  discontent  to 
grow  upon  you.  Whatever  your  sit- 
uation, dig  up  the  good  in  it;  it  is 
always  there.  And  realize  that  when 
you  have  drawn  from  your  present 
environment  all  that  it  was  intended 
to  mean  to  you  and  contributed  to  it 
what  it  was  meant  you  should,  the 
dissolving  process  will  manifest  your 
further  needs.  We  are  no  better 
than  our  environment  until  it  or  we 
change.  A  superior  understanding 
forces  a  superior  condition.  As  fast 
and  as  soon  as  we  are  aroused  from 
our  coma  we  polarize  ourselves  to 
attract  new  values.  The  happiest 
moments  you  can  ever  know  will 
come  thru  glimpsing  your  own  ascent 
thru  the  cosmic  consciousness. 

If  your  thoughts  are  unkind,  un- 
grateful,  fault-finding,   and   full   of 

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fear,  you  are  magnetized  (because 
centered  thru  deep  feeling)  to  attract 
these  very  things  to  yourself  and  you 
may  be  caught  in  a  holocaust  of  per- 
sonal disappointment.  Only  as  an 
attitude  becomes  deep  feeling  will  any 
change  be  possible.  Mere  surface 
distinctions  will  never  disturb  the 
coma. 

Happiness  results  from  the  freedom 
and  power  to  multiply  experience 
from  unexpected  opportunities,  to 
share  life  with  every  living  thing. 
Deep  coma  means  to  be  separated 
and  isolated  intent  upon  the  self. 
Exclusion  develops  at  two  periods  of 
consciousness;  first,  as  it  is  lulled  to 
sleep  thru  conceit  of  its  own  impor- 
tance by  difference  of  education, 
money,  or  clothes.  Finally  as  the  soul 
grows  conscious  of  opportunity  and 

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OR  SOUL -SLEEP. 

sees  itself  in  true  proportion,  as  a 
son  of  the  good  God,  with  hands, 
feet,  mind  only  as  a  means  to  enter 
into  the  service  of  men  and  for  the 
benefit  of  all,  he  possesses  an  over- 
flowing fount  of  happiness  that  can 
be  tapped  by  no  man.  A  man  de- 
mands his  happiness  on  the  level  of 
his  consciousness.  A  Master  does  not 
find  his  satisfactions  in  that  which 
may  entertain  an  infant. 

Dare  to  be  alone!  Analyze  the 
mass.  Know  what  ministers  to  your 
happiness  and  seek  the  highest.  Be 
not  afraid  to  withdraw  from  the 
groups  of  social  circles  if  you  have 
ceased  to  find  happiness  there;  the 
law  of  the  ascending  life  is  to  allow 
it  to  advance.  Few  people  really 
love  the  silence  because  they  are  beg- 
gars in  resources  and  unacquainted 

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with  the  power  which  demands  the 
attitude  of  listener.  A  Master  seeks 
the  lonely  places. 

A  metaphysical  or  mathematical 
system  educed  from  the  Bible  may  be 
interesting  but  it  is  a  parody.  The 
science  of  mind  needs  no  apology  to- 
day. All  the  heavy  artillery  of 
scholarship  is  turned  upon  the  men- 
tal apparatus.  Man  has  an  immense 
evolution  behind  him  and  the  study 
is  illuminating. 

Men  dare  to  laugh  at  the  one  who 
presumes  to  defend  a  system  as  a 
special  divine  revelation  from  God. 
The  scientific  world  adjusts  its 
psychology  to  such  types  of  mind  and 
with  its  academic  finger  on  the  pulse 
of  developing  tendencies  can  trace 
with  exactness  the  fevered  spasms  of 
self-importance  which  leads  a  person 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

to  announce  himself  or  herself  as 
Elijah  or  The  Woman  Clothed  with 
the  Sun.  Freaks  are  spasms  in  pre- 
serve. 

The  Hebrew  literature  has  been  a 
handy  volume  with  which  to  inspire 
awe  and  arrogate  authority.  You 
do  not  need  to  sign  away  reason  and 
break  with  all  your  relationships  in 
the  world  of  progress,  because  sud- 
denly you  have  awakened  to  the 
power  of  auto-suggestion.  The  real 
fact  is  you  have  touched  only  one  of 
the  laws  in  world  economy;  it  is  not 
the  all  nor  the  ultimate.  Unity 
must  be  sought  thru  relationships 
vast  enough  to  include  all  experience, 
scientific,  historical,  religious.  Any 
system  which  places  restriction  upon 
your  thinking,  seeking,  and  proving 
pauperizes  you.     Take  your  private 

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systems  if  you  will,  but  do  not  think 
for  one  moment  that  you  are  in 
possession  of  any  knowledge  of  what 
the  Bible  is,  its  meaning,  or  its  his- 
tory. More  knowledge  will  help  you 
to  understand  that  it  takes  one  with 
the  spirit  of  the  Trusts  to  exploit 
the  Bible  as  a  private  scheme.  We 
need  to  know  what  is  fact  lest  we 
make  fable  of  it  all.  The  student 
in  every  known  field  of  knowledge 
plods  and  assorts  his  findings,  widens 
and  deepens  all  his  resources,  and 
never  shuts  off  the  light  nor  burns 
his  bridges. 

The  Bible  is  the  autobiography  of 
the  Hebrew  nation.  It  might  have 
been  dug  up  as  was  the  Mormon 
Bible,  or  written  by  one  man  as  the 
Koran  was,  instead  of  being  written 
by  many  men  covering  a  period  of 

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OR  SOUL-SLEEP. 

several  hundred  years,  weaving  in  its 
traditions  and  myths  for  the  purpose 
of  teaching  and  preaching,  rewritten 
and  re-edited  according  to  the  need  of 
the  prophet's  lash  in  correcting  pre- 
vailing evils. 

Some  parts  of  the  Bible  were  writ- 
ten as  late  as  165  B.  C.  and  Genesis 
was  re-edited  and  put  into  its 
present  form  about  445  B.  C.  How 
do  we  know?  Assyriology  has  been 
born  during  the  last  twenty  years 
and  from  her  buried  treasures  of 
palaces,  enormous  libraries,  tablets 
of  legal  documents,  accurate  systems 
of  chronology,  we  have  data  inter- 
changing across  Palestine  on  its  way 
to  Egypt,  which  returns  the  com- 
pliment by  uncovering  in  1887  the 
Amarna  letters  written  1450  B.  C. 
by    a    vassal    king    in    Palestine    to 

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his  Egyptian  monarch,  revealing  a 
civilization  antedating  by  several 
thousand  years  the  colonization  of 
Palestine  by  the  Hebrews. 

Historical  criticism  tethers  frag- 
ments to  wholes  and  distinguishes 
its  ages  of  literature  by  the  variation 
in  its  language  as  easily  as  the 
geologist  dates  the  rocks  or  the  stu- 
dent distinguishes  between  the  Eng- 
lish of  Chaucer  and  that  of  the 
twentieth  century. 

The  bubble  of  unlocking  the 
Bible  by  special  keys  is  pierced  by 
an  exegesis  which  enables  one  to 
recognize  certain  inherited  ideas, 
customs,  and  language.  This  method 
interprets  the  meaning  of  Scripture 
in  the  thought  of  the  writer. 

The  Allegorical  interpreter  is  con- 
cerned   with    its    spiritual    lessons, 

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wholly  distinct  from  the  thought  of 
the  writer. 

The  Mystical  interpreter  scorns 
the  lexicon  and  grammar  and  sees 
only  what  it  means  to  him. 

Dogmatic  interpretation  is  con- 
cerned with  only  what  defends  a  cer- 
tain doctrine. 

The  Historical  method  seeks  the 
meaning  in  the  thought  of  the  writer, 
to  know  the  situation  which  gave  it 
birth,  the  ends  to  accomplish,  the 
political,  moral,  social,  and  religious 
life  from  which  the  book  sprang. 
Within  it  are  truths  valid  for  all 
time,  requiring  no  interpretation 
save  the  direct  appeal  to  the  con- 
science, for  it  is  the  literature  of  a 
people  saturated  with  the  God  con- 
sciousness, and  a  revelation  of  ele- 
mental  man   with   his   face   toward 

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God.  It  is  a  treasury  of  race  ex- 
perience, and  not  a  collection  of  in- 
fallible oracles  and  cunningly  devised 
fables.  History  is  God's  one  great 
method  of  teaching  men.  Its  abid- 
ing lesson  is  that  sin  is  punished  and 
virtue  will  have  its  reward.  By  ex- 
perience with  great  men  of  the  past 
our  life  is  stimulated  and  nourished. 
This  study  soon  leads  to  the  discov- 
ery that  the  Bible  throughout  does 
not  present  the  same  conclusions  of 
God  nor  the  same  standards  for 
moral  conduct.  The  Bible  is  not  a 
history  of  the  world  but  of  Israel's 
traditions. 

There  are  those  who  have  thought 
they  could  not  be  Christians  and 
know  anything  about  psychology, 
while  the  fact  is  you  cannot  be  as 
good   a   Christian   without   it.       It 

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pigeonholes  experience  that  is  live 
data.  The  Bible  pronounces  no  anath- 
ema on  electricity  and  the  uses  of 
steam  or  upon  any  line  of  achieve- 
ment of  which  the  ancient  Hebrews 
had  not  the  slightest  notion,  yet  they 
are  not  the  less  useful  on  that  ac- 
count. You  need  to  understand  your 
material,  and  have  the  knowledge 
that  comes  thru  scientific  research, 
history,  and  religion.  Both  national 
and  individual  life  swings  around  a 
center.  The  center  of  the  Hebrew 
life  was  God  and  when  the  people 
swung  far  out  on  the  circumference 
of  life's  fascinations  their  prophets 
called  them  back  and  centered  their 
lives  again.  That  everlasting  round- 
ing-up  of  a  life  is  sacred  history. 
Other  nations  center  in  the  Derby 
and  motor  cars.     Yet  one  by  one  an 

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individual  steps  out,  detaches  him- 
self from  the  mass  and  disintegration 
is  arrested  in  spots. 

The  intellectual  awakening  of  this 
century  will  not  be  put  off  by  a 
conglomerate  metaphysical  frappe. 
The  relation  between  cause  and  effect 
has  revealed  a  power  resident  in 
every  man  to  bring  things  to  pass. 
The  hurry  habit  makes  the  spiritual 
life  the  specialty  of  experts  who 
furnish  a  concise  formula  for  its 
possession.  The  one  who  seeks  bar- 
gain sales  for  spiritual  outfits  grows 
impatient  as  he  realizes  that  the 
spiritual  life  is  a  process  and  not  a 
plaster.  Only  by  blending  "to  be" 
and  "to  get"  into  "begetting"  or  "be- 
coming," can  the  transformation 
take  place.  Physical  culture  would 
make   man    the   reflex   of   his   dia- 

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phragm.  Electric  healing  would  re- 
solve life  into  human  electricity;  all 
good  as  forms  of  suggestion  which 
may  or  may  not  lead  to  awakening. 
The  one  sure  way  is  to  analyze  the 
self.  This  should  never  become  mor- 
bid introspection,  which  is  another 
word  for  self-love  and  a  dislike  for 
thinking  the  self  ever  at  fault. 

Analysis  has  been  so  little  used 
that  the  word  has  almost  become 
fossilized  syntax  and  now  Pragma- 
tism takes  its  place  as  a  brand  new 
word  and  lends  its  name  as  sponsor 
to  the  things  worth  while.  Accord- 
ing to  Professor  James  the  psychol- 
ogist, the  Pragmatist  accepts  the 
world  as  an  inheritance  which  obli- 
gates each  generation  to  leave  it  to 
posterity  in  an  improved  condition. 
It  has  no  dogmas  and  no  doctrines 

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but  a  method  for  arriving  at  truth 
which  it  calls  "a  species  of  good." 
Pragmatism  unstiffens  all  theories  by 
setting  each  one  to  work.  It  enter- 
tains any  hypothesis  and  considers 
any  evidence  and  offers  a  free  field 
even  to  theological  ideas  if  they 
prove  to  have  a  value  for  concrete 
life.  It  assumes  that  any  new 
knowledge  is  absorbed  in  terms  of 
past  knowledge  and  that  primitive 
ways  of  thinking  may  not  yet  be 
wholly  expunged;  that  our  funda- 
mental ways  of  thinking  are  discov- 
eries of  exceedingly  remote  ancestors 
which  have  been  able  to  preserve 
themselves  throughout  the  experience 
of  all  subsequent  time  and  that  all 
theories  are  mental  moods  of  adap- 
tion to  reality;  that  the  possession 
of  any  truth  is  not  an  end  in  itself, 

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but  only  a  means  of  vital  satisfac- 
tions. There  is  no  absolute  truth, 
but  that  certain  truths  work  out  in 
the  course  of  experience.  It  argues 
for  a  universe  unfinished,  growing 
in  all  sorts  of  places,  especially  in 
the  places  where  thinking  beings  are 
at  work,  rather  than  the  idea  of  a 
universe  eternally  complete,  an 
edition  de  luxe  with  duplicate  editions 
full  of  false  readings,  each  mutilated 
and  distorted  in  its  own  way. 

Pragmatism  asserts  that  we  can- 
not reject  any  hypothesis  if  conse- 
quences useful  to  life  flow  from  it. 
That  every  ideal  realized  is  one  mo- 
ment in  the  world's  salvation,  and 
that  a  man  should  be  willing  to  pay 
with  his  own  person,  if  need  be,  for 
the  realization  of  the  ideals  which  he 
frames.     Professor  James  closes  his 

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book  with  these  words:  "I  firmly 
disbelieve,  myself,  that  our  human 
experience  is  the  highest  form  of  ex- 
perience extant  in  the  universe.  I 
believe,  rather,  that  we  stand  in 
much  the  same  relation  to  the  whole 
of  the  universe  as  our  canine  and 
feline  pets  do  to  the  whole  of  human 
life.  They  inhabit  our  drawing 
rooms  and  libraries.  They  take  part 
in  scenes  of  whose  significance  they 
have  no  inkling.  They  are  merely 
tangent  to  curves  of  history,  the 
beginnings  and  ends  and  forms  of 
which  pass  wholly  beyond  their  ken. 
So  we  are  tangent  to  the  wider  life 
of  things,  and  may  well  believe  that 
higher  powers  exist  and  are  at  work 
to  save  the  world  on  ideal  lines  sim- 
ilar to  our  own." 

Pragmatism,  then,  becomes  a  class 

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name  for  various  working  values  in 
experience,  analyzing  ideals  as  they 
work  out  in  life  with  a  spirit  of  rev- 
erence, love,  and  wisdom.  It  wel- 
comes unity  on  the  basis  of  diversity 
and  usefulness  and  safeguards  its 
conclusions  by  fearless,  searching 
analysis. 

The  Awakened  one  seeks  prayer 
as  the  most  high  place  where  he  may 
renew  his  life.  If  prayer  preceded 
every  meditation,  every  act  of  heal- 
ing, every  work  attempted,  the  way 
would  quickly  uncover  itself,  because 
the  vibrations  are  centered  around 
positive  domination  of  good  thru  the 
quiet  process  of  spiritual  energy, 
without  the  effort  necessary  in 
manipulating  the  mental  and  phys- 
ical currents  and  controlling  the  out- 
ward energies. 

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Prayer  unites  us  in  a  common 
rhythm  with  the  infinite  love  and 
law.  "God  is  able  to  do  for  us  far 
more  abundantly  above  all  that  we 
can  ask  or  think."  Each  may  supply 
for  himself  another  word  for  God  if 
it  would  more  adequately  convey  his 
conception  of  the  infinite  energy. 

Professor  Edward  Everett  Hale 
has  written  a  most  interesting  ac- 
count of  the  part  prayer  played  in  the 
certain  experience  of  his.  He  began 
by  seeking  during  the  day  one  hour 
of  perfect  solitude,  in  which  he  might 
make  "the  experiment  of  prayer." 
He  writes:  "As  the  week  went  on  I 
began  to  be  conscious  of  a  curious 
change  in  myself  which  I  did  not  and 
do  not  explain.  My  pleasure  in  the 
many  interests  which  made  up  my 
life  began  to  diminish  and  become 

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dull.  Instead  of  desiring  to  finish 
up  the  duties  of  life  to  turn  to  its 
pleasures,  I  found  that  for  the  time 
its  pleasures  had  little  interest. 
Art,  literature,  scholarship,  the 
theater,  the  various  things  that  had 
filled  my  mind  lost  attraction. 
Plans  and  ambitions  of  one  sort  and 
another  no  longer  interested  me.  I 
felt  no  especial  lack,  however;  I 
believe  I  was  conscious  of  a  greater 
interest."  Prayer  disclosed  an  eter- 
nal harmony  and  gave  life  new  val- 
ues in  the  yielding  of  his  own  life 
to  a  higher  law  of  gravitation. 
Things  released  themselves  from  an 
exaggerated  value  and  assumed  their 
true  proportion. 

Let  this  prayer  experience  be  your 
daily  sacrament.  A  sacrament  is 
your  most   high   consciousness  with 

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the  most  high  spirit  of  all  worlds. 
"Behold,  I  stand  at  the  door  and 
knock:  if  any  man  hear  my  voice 
and  open  the  door,  I  will  come  in  to 
him,  and  I  will  sup  with  him  and 
he  with  me.' 

Equilibrium  of  the  physical  and 
spiritual  forces  is  true  healing. 
Healing  is  not  force,  nor  hypnotism, 
nor  will  power.  It  comes  as  a 
spiritual  victory  and  thru  soul 
struggle.  Having  attained  to  the 
knowledge  of  Aspiration,  Trans- 
mutation, Meditation,  command 
the  soul  to  heal  itself  and  then 
open  the  objective  consciousness  to 
watch  the  work.  It  is  the  spirit 
that  heals,  that  establishes  a  law  in 
the  perceptions.  We  need  to 
create  a  center  thru  which  the 
power    of    the     spirit    can     work. 

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We  have  nothing  to  do  but  to  visualize 
the  perfect  picture;  the  spirit  does 
the  rest  thru  the  illumination  of  sug- 
gestion and  the  silence. 

Think  of  yourself  in  pictures, 
visualize  your  hopes.  "He  who  builds 
no  castles  in  the  air  builds  no  castles 
anywhere."  Every  thought  and  act 
stirs  certain  life  forces,  therefore  let 
no  force  generate  which  would  cancel 
your  desires.  It  is  no  part  of  the 
result  what  your  opinions  are,  you 
are  educating  your  opinions;  the 
process  is  to  be  observed,  and  while 
you  stop  to  mourn,  disintegration 
and  demagnetization  are  taking 
place.  Mere  telling  the  subconscious 
will  not  change  the  coma,  an  impres- 
sion must  be  made  thru  feeling  it 
must  be  so.  Mere  words  are  often 
caught  in  the  mental  machinery  and 

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never  get  any  farther.  Convey  the 
impression  direct  as  to  what  you 
wish  fulfilled.  Keep  your  vision 
upon  that,  it  becomes  a  thought 
matrix  for  manifestation.  How 
you  feel  within  is  the  potent 
power.  Never  tell  the  subconscious 
what  not  to  do.  "Not"  is  a  limita- 
tion and  inefficient  to  stamp  the  de- 
sired impulse.  Its  physiological 
action  was  explained  under  "Affirma- 
tion." 

The  dynamo  of  environment  is  the 
body.  To  be  healed  means  more 
than  bodily  harmony.  The  radiation 
of  harmonious  vibration  impresses 
our  homes  and  business  relation- 
ships. We  magnetize  conditions. 
Look  upon  every  disappointment  as 
an  increased  opportunity;  a  door 
closed  as  another  opens.     Be  serene, 

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calm,  joyful,  expectant,  saying 
firmly,  "I  am  waiting,  I  manifest  joy 
unto  me."  Walk  beside  yourself  as 
a  friend  and  companion. 

To  suggest  health  to  the  soul  is  to 
receive  it  if  the  conditions  are  ful- 
filled. First  understand  that  you 
are  a  dreaming  soul,  that  you  need 
to  arouse  yourself.  Be  concentrated 
in  your  effort  and  impress  the  sub- 
conscious with  what  you  desire  to 
have  realized. 

To  restore  normal  conditions  in 
another,  attain  to  the  silence,  and 
hold  in  your  mind  the  picture  of  that 
one  as  he  should  be ;  see  him  no  other 
way.  Lovingly  and  often  draw  this 
picture  to  you,  thus  forming  a 
thought  matrix.  It  will  in  time  be- 
come so  real  a  thing  that  he,  too,  will 
glimpse   it,   and,   fed   by   its  vision, 

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come  into  his  own.  In  the  wordless 
silence  thought  creates  an  illimitable 
universe  vast  as  space  and  sends  its 
messages  on  wings.  Send  out  love 
and  encouragement  to  all  the  world. 
What  about  "getting  and  having"? 
Is  it  right  to  attract  our  own  home 
to  us  and  the  ability  to  preserve  our- 
selves from  being  a  burden  to  any 
one?  The  expediency  of  the  every- 
day facts  of  existence  need  not  be 
overlooked  or  ignored.  In  any  con- 
dition of  human  life  a  home  and 
clothing  are  necessary,  and  the  higher 
we  are  in  the  ascending  scale  of  de- 
velopment the  clearer  are  our  per- 
ceptions of  the  value  of  a  suitable 
environment,  but  our  circumstances 
must  justify  our  demands.  One 
might  demonstrate  a  house  and  lot 
remote   and   unavailing  to  produce 

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the  comfort  and  usefulness  that  one 
room  might  bring.  It  is  perfectly 
legitimate  to  demand  a  home  and  a 
reasonable  income ;  these  are  as  much 
a  part  of  ns  as  feathers  are  to  a 
bird,  merely  protection.  In  the 
matter  of  food  and  clothes  a  Master 
should  be  able  to  exercise  his  free- 
dom as  to  how  his  time  and  energies 
shall  be  conserved. 

When  the  church  provided  homes 
for  its  brotherhoods,  one  great  dis- 
traction was  removed.  The  question 
of  clothes  was  easily  solved.  But, 
like  all  good  things,  it  was  abused  by 
being  an  open  door  to  a  mere  profes- 
sion of  spiritual  goods,  and  there  has 
never  been  devised  a  psychic  plum- 
met to  take  the  measure  of  a  human 
motive.  The  abuse  of  a  privilege, 
however,  does  not  argue  for  its  un- 

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fitness,  and  such  retreats  to-day 
offered  at  the  least  possible  expense 
and  governed  by  the  laws  of  silence 
and  meditation,  would  be  a  glorious 
philanthropy. 

Do  the  work  that  lies  direct  before 
you  and  the  purity  of  your  motive 
will  lift  you  into  channels  of  supply 
which  are  legitimate  only  as  they 
further  usefulness.  When  a  horse 
and  carriage  or  a  motor  is  a  neces- 
sary part  of  your  work  or  develop- 
ment, it  will  be  forthcoming.  But 
as  a  magic  creation  for  self-indul- 
gence, it  may  not  materialize.  An 
understanding,  spiritual,  consecrated 
consciousness  does  not  demand  unre- 
lated things.  Life  is  experience! 
Mere  money  may  negate  experience. 

The  journey  up  the  heights  of  full 
awakening  may  take  years,  a  month, 

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a  day;  all  depends  upon  the  stupor 
and  the  determined  purpose  during 
the  moments  of  awakening  and  the 
use  of  the  hours  of  meditation  and 
prayer.  It  also  requires  that  you 
"travel  light"  in  requiring  service 
from  others  and  carrying  no  heavy 
baggage  of  mental  and  physical  self- 
necessities. 

When  one  realizes  that  the  un- 
awakened  life  is  a  dreaming  out 
loud,  that  one  thought  is  as  effective 
as  another  to  provoke  action,  that 
only  thru  conscious  directed  thought 
and  analysis  will  result  an  under- 
standing which  will  eventuate  in  an 
awakening  that  means  supremacy, 
he  enters  into  the  life  of  the  spirit 
which  becomes  dominant.  The  senses 
become  mere  mechanical  devices 
by  which  the  soul  enters  upon  the 

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large  life  of  mastership,  merely 
guideposts  on  the  path  of  service. 
The  one  who  can  enter  the  subliminal 
consciousness  at  will  knows  a  happi- 
ness that  transcends  the  sense  life. 
He  may  say,  "I  and  the  Father  are 
one."  He  no  longer  sees  himself  a 
separate  atom,  but  lifting  his  inner 
eye  to  the  great  brooding  over-soul, 
he  bathes  in  its  light,  unites  himself 
with  its  purpose,  merges  his  person- 
ality with  its  impersonality,  slips 
into  the  great  eternal  and  the  mask 
of  self  is  nullified. 

In  the  transforming  process  the 
small  self-interests  have  become  dis- 
solved. The  narrow  conventions  that 
conform  to  "this,"  and  "that,"  no 
longer  operate ;  he  is  one  with  all,  no 
joy  but  increases  his  joy,  no  pain  or 
grief  but  he  can  share ;  dumb  to  self- 

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glorification,  praise  and  blame  are 
alike  to  him,  for  he  is  sensitized  to 
every  human  need  and  the  personal 
sting  is  deflected. 

Beautiful  surroundings  are  en- 
joyed because  they  are  beautiful  and 
harmonious,  not  because  they  are  a 
necessity.  He  can  live  in  the  world 
but  not  of  it;  he  can  work  as  those 
who  are  ambitious;  he  can  respect 
life  as  those  who  desire  it;  he  can  be 
happy  as  those  who  live  for  happi- 
ness. No  longer  dependent  upon 
human  caprice  for  happiness,  he  is 
not  offended  at  anything  it  may  do; 
he  understands,  he  sees  the  dreamer 
dreaming;  he  seeks  experience  from 
the  laws  of  his  inner  nature.  The 
senses  then  become  symbols  of  the 
real;  the  spirit  knows  and  feels; 
there  is  no  more  war  between  the 

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spirit  and  the  senses;  everything 
takes  on  a  new  meaning.  Home, 
family,  friends,  food,  nature,  become 
mere  names  for  protection,  brother- 
hood, communion.  The  petty  bar- 
riers of  money  and  position  drop 
away  like  magic  and  the  soul  stands 
naked  before  God,  aware  of  itself! 

Affirmations. 

I  am  working  for  eternal  truth 
which  must  emerge.  I  work  for  its 
release  into  this  life  whether  it  be  for 
my  own  loved  ones  or  for  others. 

I  will  do  the  work  before  me,  I 
bring  into  manifestation  the  will 
of  God.  Now  do  I  draw  the  wisdom 
of  my  inner  life  into  my  conscious 
mind. 

Divine  Father,  thou  Soul  of  the 
universe,  I  empty  myself  of  self  to 

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be  filled  with  Thee.  Absorb  me, 
animate  me,  dominate  me  until 
merged  with  Thy  spirit,  all  the  ave- 
nues of  my  being  manifest  Thy  will 
and  Thy  law. 
Psalm  23. 


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